Category Archives: Poetry

News from Grey Suit Editions UK

Click on Grey Suit Editions blog  And scroll down for the latest news about our publications.

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Aquileia a Cappella: Knots in a Mosaic

I am very excited that the libretto I wrote for a performance opera that was inspired by the great early Christian church in Aquileia has now been set to music and recorded. See also Shadow of a Campanile. More details … Continue reading

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Nepenthes

The only evidence of invisible women, These anatomical vaginas form themselves From stalks that have grown out of leaves. Aberrant blooms that have got it all wrong? x Or are they the next delicious thing – More alluring than the … Continue reading

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Deep State

x Inside the Beltway, it’s a black hole. Outside? Only desert islands. Actual desert islands, none with much of a palm. x Castaway means left behind, Less than a dot on the map. Not in sight. No way borne in … Continue reading

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Recent contributions to magazines etc: some useful links.

    Here is the link to new publishing activities  It includes poems, reviews and essays and is currently up-to-date. Ebook and flip-book publications which can be read for free can be found here

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Edward Field

Edward Field is 99 years old today (7/6/2023)x In my opinion one of the most significant American poets of his time. Why? Because he is one of the first poets to “tell it how it is”. No frills. A sane … Continue reading

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Visitation

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Poetry of Protest

  Anthony Howell says: UPDATE – Unfortunately I have come down with a really horrible flu, so I have had to cancel my reading tonight. But please go and support the other readers on my behalf.   I am glad … Continue reading

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TIGER TOPIA – for Julian Assange

x Marry your lover too soon after your husband has passed away And you could die of tiger fright. They have these unfathomable eyes. Their lean stripes, imagine them. How they slide between Poles. Shaman-masked, marked with ancient writing. x … Continue reading

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A Monkey Reflects upon Eternity

x We come back as us. Call it representation. For so as to comply with time being space And space time, from one life to the next, There can be no development. We just exist again, Each our own link … Continue reading

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