Much of my poetry has become a work in progress, but I have decided that I will leave it online anyway so that you can see the older versions if you so desire. I have also placed it all on one page, with Document7, Peoms and Workshop all available for download. I'm thinking of working systematically through them and improving where I can, so keep checking back for the newer version - maybe I'll release a Remastered/Greatest Hits ^^
With my poetry, I have tried to do something different each time. I feel that I'm still searching for a poetic voice, and play this search out through quite a lot of my writing. However, recently, I've felt myself start to uncover, piece by piece, where my writing wants to belong, and that is in the experimental domain. I like writing traditional, imaginative poetry - but I like writing experimental poetry even more. I think this will come across from my latest collection, 'Workshop'.
Following is a list of which poems are in which collection. At the bottom is a small thumnail; click it to read the collection online as a flip-book. You can also download a PDF of the poems. The current uncollected poems are available to read individually; simply click on the title to take a look.
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Document7
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Peoms | Workshop | Uncollected |
| Poetry | December Too Soon | Sat in Moonlight |
Remember II |
| Underneath |
Collections | - | Turning The Page |
| The Hourglass |
Things [sic] | With the Smoke Gone |
Tunnel |
| Science |
Shadows | Collage | Thirty Days of Japan |
| Arrival | Autumn Monday | Remember |
Something New |
| The River |
A Letter | ____________ | Streetlights |
| Double Exposure: Night and Day |
Campus Photographer | Blue Haiku |
Ember Moon |
| Black Thorn |
Hollow Questions | Workshop | I Run |
| Summer |
105 | Step Into My World | |
| Alone |
Art | Chances | |
| Ars Amatoria |
New Year's Resolution | Custard Cream Grandad | |
| I Fear To Sleep |
Thoughts | I want to write | |
| Dark Thoughts and Hope |
Cruel Happiness | One Breath | |
| Doubtful Conclusions |
Quite Cliche | Ursa Caeruleus | |
| Laugh to Death |
Ideas | ||
| Halves |
Rebirth of an Ashen Hope | ||
| Poetry II |
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Document7 is my first collection of poems, which were mostly written during my first few terms at University. I am working on revising them to hopefully make them better. My encounter with the writing of both Roland Barthes and Greg Williamson had a large impact on the style and concerns of much of the poetry here. Some personal favourites of mine are Poetry II, Arrival and the Double Exposure Night and Day.
Peoms is the second set and is largely a desire to explore and expand on different ways of tackling poetry. I'm still trying lots of different things with these poems, some working better than others. I've thrown off some of the doubts which lurked in my mind in Document7, but with poems like 'Ideas', some of those doubts over language remain. My favourites include December Too Soon, Collections and Hollow Questions.
Workshop is the latest set of poetry, all of them being submitted during the course of a poetry workshop run by Saskia Hamilton during a summer term at York. The workshop itself has been of immense importance, causing a seismic shift in my way of approaching poetry; the poems here tend to be a lot more sparse than anything that has come before, and marks an explosion of experimenting with different things across my writing. I particularly like Remember, and of course the playful Blue Haiku.