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Since discovering the Internet I've corresponded with poetry-lovers the world over
and have made many friends in the virtual world.
I've established this site to keep in touch. You can always reach me here. |
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I’ve been writing poetry on and off since childhood. I employ a variety of traditional forms - sonnets, villanelles, triolets, rondeaus, ballads - and sometimes create my own.
I’m also fond of the Japanese tanka form. This is an interview I did on tanka poetry for a British business magazine. The subject is
Ruling Passions.
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My second book, 'Talking to Lord Newborough' is now available from Barnes & Noble and all Amazon sites internationally. Just search for 'Lord Newborough' and it comes up.
It's also available direct from the publisher, Alsop Review Press, along with my CD recording of it:
http://www.alsopreview.com/press.htm |
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My poems have appeared in various magazines,
e-zines and anthologies in the UK, USA and Japan, and my first book, Words
to Say, was published at the end of 2002. It’s available from Amazon
in the
UK, in
North America and
Japan. Read what others have said about Words to Say -
click here.
It's been said there are more people writing poetry nowadays than reading
it. Perhaps there always were; or possibly contemporary poetry is
becoming too arcane and internally focussed for the general reader.
If so, we must try to change. |
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I was born in Ffestiniog, North Wales, and soon afterwards my family moved to Hull. I was educated at Hull Grammar School and St Catherine's College, Oxford, where I studied modern history.
My life's been spent in the near aura of famous poets: Dafydd ap Gwilym, greatest of the Welsh bards; Philip Larkin, one-time librarian of Hull University; Andrew Marvell, who also went to Hull Grammar School. I live now with my family in Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire, a stone's throw from the churchyard where Thomas Gray is buried; still hoping that one day something of these poets will rub off on me.
I work in London, in financial services. |
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There are many poetry workshops and discussion boards on the Internet, though only a few of them focus on formal verse. These are some of my favourites, the first two being specialist boards:
Sonnet Central
Able Muse
The Gazebo
The Critical Poet
Not a workshop, but a fine and growing online anthology: The HyperTexts
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Tanka Online
Anglo-Japanese Tanka Society
Everybody's Tanka
Chieko Murayama's website
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