Tag: poetry

Review of Rowan Evans’ Last Verses of Beccán

My review of Rowan Evans’ new publication from Guillemot Press, The Last Verses of Beccán is live now on the Stride website.

Lastness, lateness and the left behind are woven through this book, from the title, to references to last things (‘eschaton’), to grave slabs, cemeteries and remains within the shifting sounds and forms of its mix of languages. Here are heard the leftovers of poems written on the edge, in the far outposts of a Christian world, the last place before wide ocean, somewhere to go to escape your fate or to end your days.

Read the rest of the review HERE.

More details of the publication at Guillemot Press.

new poems at Stride Magazine

Some new poems from a sequence in progress – ‘revised dictionary supplement’ – are up now at Rupert Loydell’s Stride Magazine site. The sequence was significantly edited during my residency at Arteles in Finland in November 2018. The texts began as a response to Bruno Munari’s ‘Supplement to the Italian Dictionary’ and explore questions of gesture, bodies, queerness, power and presentation.

Link here.

contribution to According to John James

In September, Shearsman Books published According to John James edited by Kelvin Corcoran. The project was organised in memory of John James who died in May 2018. I was one of a number of poets who answered a call for responses to 2 quatrains in James’s ‘Theory of Poetry’. Among others who contributed are Lyndon Davies, Andrew Duncan, John Hall, Alan Halsey, Peter Hughes, Romana Huk, Linda Kemp, Tony Lopez, Simon Perril, J.H. Prynne, Denise Riley, Peter Riley, Gavin Selerie, Karlien van den Beukel, Robert Vas Dias, Geoff Ward, and John Wilkinson. A painting by Bruce McLean is reproduced on the cover. Published September 2018. Chapbook, 36pp, 8.5 x 5.5ins, £6.50 / $9.95ISBN 9781848616301