Category Archives: Poetry

Luke Roberts reviews Iliassa Sequin

Click here for Luke Roberts’ review in the Fortnightly of Iliassa Sequins Collected Complete Poems There is also a review of her work on page 101 of The Alchemy Spoon – at this link https://en.calameo.com/read/006240328939df95c44c7?authid=PgLe8IRv1QEj And a new review by … Continue reading

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Black Ink

A Poem on the Underground

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Purgatory

In Dante’s Comedy, each punishment is a contrapasso, a symbolic instance of poetic justice, and Purgatory seemed an appropriate place to be, last winter. So here, in the Fortnightly Review are my thoughts about reading Purgatory.

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Grey Suit Editions – List of Publications

New books in 2021 List of Publications 1 List of Publications 2 List of publications 3 (Miscellaneous) Our video catalogue from the nineties These links provide a tour of Grey Suit. The project began as a video magazine for performance … Continue reading

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My Father

Aley Howell 1919-1945 Now added to this post – the catalogue to the Library of New South Wales’ excellent “Dunera” exhibition – about the camp my father was interned in for the first years of the war – and the … Continue reading

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Iliassa Sequin: Collected Complete Poems

Iliassa Sequin’s unique way of writing is at last available in a publication from Grey Suit Editions More details about her work and her life here Now available on Amazon and on Abebooks.

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Less than a Day from April

BALLAD Less than a day from April, The wax white, compact Hyacinth is up. And petals in a sky x Trailing a fringe of drizzle, Cling to the gusty almond. Daffodil clumps are swept Like weed combed by a brook. … Continue reading

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The Sarah Maguire Prize Announcement on Zoom

The Poetry Translation Centre invites you to attend the announcement of the winner of the Sarah Maguire Prize for Poetry in Translation.Incomprehensible Lesson by Fawzi Karim, translated by Anthony Howell is among the five books short-listed.​Join the shortlisted poets, translators and publishers live on Zoom for … Continue reading

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Grey Suit Editions – two new publications!

There are two new publications by Grey Suit Editions UK. Collected Complete Poems by Iliassa Sequin and The Cross of Carl by Walter Owen. Thanks to Peter Jay, Ken Sequin, Peter Gizzi, Catherine Somers and everyone who has contributed expertise … Continue reading

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Three Poems (now with recordings) at the Fortnightly

These three poems published by The Fortnightly Review are now accompanied by very good sound recordings. Further recordings can be found here where a link can be found to my poems on the National Poetry Archive. A favourite recording of … Continue reading

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