Kilb50
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My stories have been read 93002 times
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10 of my 378 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 9 votes
The Child We Can Never Have was published in Contour magazine, February 2018.
Billy Ulysses... was runner up in Abc's Poem of the Year award, 2014.
Spring was highly commended in the 2012 Larkin-East Riding poetry competition
The Ghost of Milton Friedman... won the 2012 Abc poetry competition
Nicolaus Copernicus... was published in Gold Dust Anthology, 2012
The Poet Laid Bare was published in The Big Issue, 2011
A Tea Box... was a prize-winner in the MIND poetry competition 2010
Leipzig was chosen for the 2005 Midland Arts Centre 'Short Cuts' readings & subsequently published in Gold Dust magazine, 2006
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Patriotic Poetry Please!
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The Old House Villanelle
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The Norwegian Poetess
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The Ducking Stool In Leominster Church
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I'm A Right Hard Needy Poet, Me
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Ewan - this was written as a
Posted on Thu, 04 Oct 2018
Ewan - this was written as a CW prompt many years ago, back in the 80s. Can't do CW prompts to save my life these days!
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Pattern-poems can, I think,
Posted on Sun, 06 May 2018
Pattern-poems can, I think, sometimes feel a bit forced in their construction. This poem, Parson, is inspired with its shape complementing and formally adding to - in an exciting way - its subject. And as a footy fan the crowning glory of elderly...
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Thanks for your comments
Posted on Thu, 26 Apr 2018
Thanks for your comments Parson. It's been a long time since I read Carver - too long in fact.
Read full commentPosted in Something Hard Inside Him (Part 2)
Thank you insert & eds -
Posted on Sat, 29 Apr 2017
Thank you insert & eds - appreciated!
I'll be reading this poem next week at a spoken word event in Worcester & will definitely spread the Abc word!
Read full commentPosted in The Wall
A very moving poem - each
Posted on Sat, 06 Aug 2016
A very moving poem - each word justified and demanding recognition, nothing wasted, the brevity achieving something of considerable beauty.
Read full commentPosted in Whole
Very well crafted and thought
Posted on Fri, 27 May 2016
Very well crafted and thought provoking. Look forward to reading more of your work.
Read full commentPosted in The Kiss
Really enjoyed this..
Posted on Fri, 04 Mar 2016
Really enjoyed this...especially like the way we are drawn by the first three stanzas...stanzas that reflect and appear as a jagged mirror...the poem opening up like a sluice gate...carrying the reader to a final uncompromising crescendo......
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"a whisper of Angostura
Posted on Tue, 08 Dec 2015
"a whisper of Angostura bitters...
a tornado of textures, flavours, fandango with my mind...
hues that burn and bleed and bind"
I'm salivating! Great stuff Silver.
Read full commentPosted in On Preparing a Fruit Salad
A mesmerising poem, Silver..
Posted on Mon, 20 Jul 2015
A mesmerising poem, Silver...wonderfully fluent in form & intelligence, the image of stretch marks acted as a powerful - and at the same time beautiful - metaphor for artistic and emotional imperfection.
Read full commentPosted in The Poetry of Porcelain