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Robert Peake

Robert Peake is an American poet living in England. His new short collection The Silence Teacher is now available from Poetry Salzburg.

Recent Publications

A Poem for my Nemesis

Well, not quite. For all I know, we may be related. But imagine my frustration at being beat in search engine results for my own name by someone who has been dead for almost 400 years. I decided to channel … Continue reading →

Poem in South Bank Poetry 15

I came home from two weeks in New England to my contributor’s copy of South Bank Poetry 15. I was very sorry to miss the launch reading due to this trip. However, I look forward to reading through poems from … Continue reading →

Mice of the London Underground (Poem and Audio Online)

My three-part poem “Mice of the London Underground” is now available on the qarrtsiluni website as part of their Animals in the City issue. Part three of the poem draws inspiration from a prank notice about attacking mice at Farringdon … Continue reading →

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Afric McGlinchey Reviews The Silence Teacher

“These fragments I have shored against my ruins” -T.S. Eliot, “The Wasteland” As I have said before, it is a strange and wonderful thing to read the results of someone reflecting deeply and at length upon your own work. Irish … Continue reading →

Doomed in Good Company

Thoughts for Dispossessed Poets “There is another world, and it is in this one” -Paul Éluard “He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.” -John 1:10 Boo hoo. The modern … Continue reading →

London Poetry Hotspots

In addition to which British poets to read, American friends who come to visit invariably ask which spots they should visit to get a feel for the London poetry scene. In a recent article for HuffPo UK, I list five … Continue reading →

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Books

The Silence Teacher,
NOW AVAILABLE from Poetry Salzburg

Human Shade,
Part of the Lost Horse Press New Poets Series

Reviews

"The lasting impression of the collection is [...] of strong work gathered intelligently and often beautifully around a poignant and well-executed set of core material."

–Martha Sprackland, Sabotage Reviews

"...a sense of withering time, but never crass or over-obvious, always subtle and Debussyian… Powerful precisely because of its larger cultural context and veiled (until the end) message."

–Hugh Fox, Small Press Review

"Robert Peake...thinks deeply and writes beautifully about topics that only poetry has the means to bring down to Earth."

-Kit Stolz, A Change in the Wind

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Last Updated: May 24, 2013

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