Making an example of oneself isn’t always easy. Making an example of one’s poetry even less so. Nevertheless, I took a stab at explaining some of the process behind writing the poem “Reading Dostoevsky in the John Lewis Café, Welwyn Garden City” in a new post on the Nine Arches Press blog. The poem appears …
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Order Now “Cyclone takes the strengths of Robert Peake’s previous work – candour, intensity, a hard-won wit–and enters the storm, in search of an answer to the question raised by his heartbreaking ‘Why I Should Be Over It By Now’. Built around four remarkable sequences, this new collection takes him into the most difficult of …
“Cyclone takes the strengths of Robert Peake’s previous work — candour, intensity, a hard-won wit — and enters the storm, in search of an answer to the question raised by his heartbreaking ‘Why I Should Be Over It By Now’. Built around four remarkable sequences, this new collection takes him into the most difficult of territories — grief and …
I received my contributor’s copy of what I suspect will be a very important book–for me, surely–and perhaps for others. How to be a Poet strikes me as not only “a twenty-first century guide to writing well”, but also a guide to living well as a writer. I also quite like the alternative title proposed …
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 …
