Paul Stephenson is an English poet. His work is intense, experimental, and consistently high quality.
Paul Stephenson just posted an in-depth interview with me on his website. We talk about The Knowledge (including at least one secret about the book most people probably don’t know), the current political climate, the place I grew up, and the teachers, places, and poets that have made a great impression on me. I also …
Parts I to III of my long poem sequence “Nomansland Common” appear in the summer issue of Under the Radar magazine. It is in good company alongside two pungent and haunting poems by Paul Stephenson, a trans-Atlantic observational poem by Jill Abram, several poems about identity by Josephine Corocan, and many other delights, including insightful …
Ursula Black hair. Red claws. That’s all you need to know. She left the cubs a long time ago, and now all she wants is a man to drink gin and play snooker. She keeps a gun in her purse and two ex lovers in jail, signs her letters with a kiss and a dab …
As the year comes to a close, I find myself in a reflective mood. Having compiled a list of the more than 350 poets I have mentioned on my website since I began writing about poetry in 2003, I was curious to discover which poets I have mentioned most often in the last ten years. …
“…fresh sweat and sweet / Mortality, he found them on the North” -Thom Gunn, “At the Back of the North Wind” Paul Stephenson reviewed The Silence Teacher, along with three other pamphlets from Poetry Salzburg, in the current issue of The North. He begins, “If all poetry is essentially about love and loss then there …
As I mentioned earlier, I have been organising poetry readings for the poets included in the British poetry special feature I edited for Silk Road Review 10. The twist is that both of these readings will be conducted virtually and available globally, using Google+ Hangouts on Air. The dusts has settled, the dates (and stars) …
