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 ArticleBlast 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 ArticleG 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 ArticleAudible 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 ArticleNo 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 ArticleExploring 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 ArticleCordial 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 ArticleSky 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 ArticleSome 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 ArticleA 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 ArticleSky 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 ArticleOld Vinyl
This poem was originally published as part of John Vick’s Adroitly Placed Word audio project, sadly no longer accessible.
View ArticleYou 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 ArticleThe Use of Me
This poem originally appeared in audio form in Blast Furnace, volume 3 issue 1.
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