Kilb50
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Cathedral Swans was published in Call & Response, an anthology of poems celebrating Worcester Cathedral (Black Pear Press 2020)
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
For a full biography and to download my novel Hawk Island go to: http://www.electronpress.com/
Poetry collection Beautiful Fish available from Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08P1HLF3X?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860
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Ingerland My Ingerland
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Conversations About Tarkovsky in a Copenhagen Restaurant
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Marta and the Bug (9)
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Marta and the Bug (7-8)
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Marta and the Bug (5-6)
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Jane - I enjoyed this poem,
Posted on Thu, 11 Feb 2021
Jane - I enjoyed this poem, particularly the line 'Now we are detached/the energy is mine.' The ability to read or commune with nature seems to be key for the energy to shift. Enticing & intriguing! Very well done.
Read full commentPosted in After the Blizzard
I'm glad you didn't lurk in
Posted on Sun, 07 Mar 2021
I'm glad you didn't lurk in metaphor onemorething. Deceptively simple, your poem is a treasure of considered wisdom and emotion. Louise Gluck's later, intensely personal poems came to mind. Great writing!
Read full commentPosted in My Mother’s Name
A very well composed poem,
Posted on Sat, 07 Mar 2020
A very well composed poem, onemorething. I really like the way the poem gradually shifts its focus from external to internal damage and ends with an overt comparison. Very enjoyable!
Read full commentPosted in A Broken Pot’s Lament
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!
Read full commentPosted in Dust Man
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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