Quantcast
Channel: Poplar Verse
Browsing all 34 articles
Browse latest View live

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Video Recital (experimental): A newly born, ten-minute old poem, read aloud...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Bolts of Silk publish Die Back, by Gram Davies

My new poem, Die Back, is available to read, along with a wealth of excellent pieces by other poets, on Juliet Wilson’s web journal, Bolts of Silk: Bolts of Silk: Die Back by Gram Davies.

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Blast Furnace Press 3.1 ~ Odes, Meditations and Prayers (inc. Audio by G J...

Smelting into their third year, Blast Furnace Press(edited by R.Clever) released another issue this week, featuring a selection of works which serenade, ponder, and supplicate to the reader. It is my...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

G J Davies practices reciting A Funk of Weather Turns (video & text)

This is me practicing for an open mic on Thursday. The poem is one that was published in The Centrifugal Eye last year, and although I read it in public at the time, it has been quite a while since...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Audible Boons

That I was read to, as a child, I consider one of the greatest gifts of my life. To experience literature as a voice is almost vital, in my view, to its appreciation. The characters of fiction are...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

No other sensation except that of the poem itself

Reblogged from Poplar Conception: The impact of poetry is so hard and direct that for the moment there is no other sensation except that of the poem itself. What profound depths we visit then – how...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Exploring Performance by G J Davies

A poem called “The Lobster” by Noah Michelson gave me a sudden fascination with endless-seeming, wrapping lines, barren of full-stops. It does not appear to be available online, unfortunately, but I...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Cordial Welcome

Some cordial I made this year, using mainly flowers from the tree at the end of the garden.   The smell of elder. The house we grew up in, an exclamation of white heads beside the door. Moving here,...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Sky Lanterns

  Prismatic invertebrates, buoyed and pursed by disparities in pressure. Not at first – their papery skin comes folded, must be unrolled carefully as gold-leaf. A zeppelin hamper hangs beneath, its...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Some Entangled Story – Discussing Fantasy in Poetry and Publication in The...

‘Twas brillig. Maybe. When, as a child, I memorised the verse behind Lewis Carol’s mirror, it surely affected me. Perhaps it was the beginning of a quest. It is with pleasure I now have three poems...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

A Reading From the Book of Changes – Duration and The Well

This poem was first published in The Centrifugal Eye in 2006, and reappeared as part of their 5th Aniversary Anthology, available in perfect bound print from Lulu and Amazon. It was also Nominated for...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Housing Block

This poem was originally published in Tilt in 2006

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Insoluble

This poem was first published in the Centrifugal Eye 2007.

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Free Party Pantoum

This poem was originally published in Tilt in 2006.

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Sky Lanterns

This poem was first published in The Centrifugal Eye several years ago, and recently reappeared as part of their 5th Aniversary Anthology, available in perfect bound print from Lulu and Amazon.

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Old Vinyl

This poem was originally published as part of John Vick’s Adroitly Placed Word audio project, sadly no longer accessible.

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

You Mummers of Lounge and Parlour

This poem was originally published in The Centrifugal Eye and has recently reappeared in the anthology Going On from Juncture 25.

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Winter Birches

This poem was first published in the Centrifugal Eye.

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Euthanasia

This poem was first published in The Centrifugal Eye

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

The Use of Me

This poem originally appeared in audio form in Blast Furnace, volume 3 issue 1.

View Article
Browsing all 34 articles
Browse latest View live