Category Archives: Poetry

Kazuko Shiraishi – “the Allen Ginsberg of Japan”

Kazuko Shiraishi has died aged 93. She was, to my mind, the most significant Japanese poet of her generation. She was a modernist, outsider poet who got her start in Katsue Kitazono’s avant-garde “VVOU” poetry group, which led Shiraishi to … Continue reading

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Observations on the Caesura

Here are the conventional terms for metrical feet in poetry. a line with two feet is a dimeter; a line with three feet is a trimeter; a line with four feet is a tetrameter; a line with five feet is … Continue reading

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Celebrating Edward Field. One hundred years old today!

Congratulations, Edward! CELEBRATING HIS ASS they try to block your dick with their little pills x for blood pressure, prostate, heart they figure you’re an old guy x so what’s the difference and just to stay alive x you go … Continue reading

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ABSTRACTIONS

To accompany my COLLECTED LONGER POEMS – now published by Grey Suit Editions UK – I am releasing another Heyzine book. This is my collected ABSTRACTIONS Click on the link for a free online copy of this collection of my … Continue reading

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The Runiad – book 7 – Agape or Eros

Book 7 of the Runiad is now available. And an extract is published in The Fortnightly Review here. As usual, the entire epic so far (now books 1 to 8) is available on this Heyzine flipbook link

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Writing at The Room – June 9 at 3 pm

WRITING AT THE ROOM – Poetry, text, sound, song 3 pm Sunday June 9. Featuring Tom Bland and Dominic Lyne Hosted by Anthony Howell and Patricia Ahern The Room, 33 Holcombe Road, Tottenham Hale/Bruce Grove London N17 9AS – enquiries: … Continue reading

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Marian Eastwood presenting my book with Grey Suit Editions to the Bodleian!

Marian is marketing Grey Suit Editions and just presented my Collected Longer Poems to the Bodleian Library in Oxford. 

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Grey Suit Editions UK – updated website

Grey Suit Editions UK has a completely updated website, now that we have been joined by Marian Eastwood as our marketing director. Masthead link Now it is easy to find our list of printed books with their ISBNs and our … Continue reading

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Extracts from The Runiad – books 5-6 now in The Fortnightly Review.

Extracts from Books 5 and 6 of my epic poem can now be found in The Fortnightly Review here There is a link at the end of that post to previous extracts (from books 1-4) that The Fortnightly has posted. … Continue reading

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COLLECTED LONGER POEMS

This Grey Suit publication will be launched in May 2024.

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