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Anthony Wilson, author of four collections with Worple, has launched a new online poetry zine, Kangaroos.
Kangaroos is inspired by the spirit of Frank O’Hara’s poem ‘Today’, which features kangaroos. They are looking for poems that bounce! They love lists. They are not afraid of exclamation marks! They want to publish at least one poem from every submissions window containing the word kangaroos.
Find out more and submit your poems to this exciting new magazine at Kangaroospoetry.com
Worple Press is deeply saddened to announce the tragic and premature death of Kevin Jackson. He was a friend and inspiration; working with him was life-enhancing and tremendous fun. He was as generous as he was brilliant; he wore his learning lightly, hated pretentiousness, forever seeking out the comic muse.
Kevin was a friend to Worple from its inception: ‘A Ruskin Alphabet’ (2000) is the product of immense scholarship and a lifelong fascination with Ruskin’s example and precepts. This was followed up with ‘The Verbals’ (2002), a book-long conversation with Iain Sinclair; an introduction to the re-publication of William Hayward’s cult sixties’ novel ‘It Never Gets Dark All Night’ (2012); and then came his beautiful versions of poems by the Polish poet, Adam Mickiewicz, in ‘Crimean Sonnets’ (2015). There was more work in progress.
What Ruskin wrote of Tolstoy, holds true for him: ‘He was one of those rare men who think with their hearts.’
Kevin was an Ode to Joy. He will be greatly missed by all of us here.
We hope that all of our friends, readers and supporters are safe and well in these difficult times.
During the last few weeks we have been sharing a daily poem from our collections. For a little moment of inspiration in your day follow us on Twitter and Facebook, and catch up with poems from Elizabeth Cook, Isabel Galleymore, Andy Brown, John Freeman and many more!
We thank you for your continued support at this time. We are still open for business and able to fulfil online orders. You can browse all of our titles on our Publications page, including the latest collections by Anthony Wilson, Peter Robinson, Patricia McCarthy and Diana Hendry.
Joseph Woods was born in Drogheda in 1966. He studied science and holds an MA in Creative Writing (Lancaster University). Widely published, he has read as far afield as Russia and India. In 2000 he won the Patrick Kavanagh Award. His first collection, Sailing to Hokkaido was published by Worple Press (2001), which was followed by Bearings in 2005.
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The Great Friend by Peter Robinson
“One of the obvious pleasures of reading translations is the discovery of unfamiliar poets. Another is an encounter with modes and manners of poetry dfferent from your own and most of your contemporaries. For example, many of the poets in Peter Robinson’s The Great Friend are simply quieter and more inclined to the contemplative moment than contemporary British and Irish writers tend to be, although there are exceptions. So much poetry these days seems calculated to be understood on a single hearing when performed at a poetry reading. Accessibility can have its benefits, of course, but its cult of performance often tends to neglect more marginal states of mind, those whispered Subjects drawn from states of semi-consciousness. Read more »
Anthony Wilson, author of four collections with Worple, has launched a new online poetry zine, Kangaroos.
Worple Press is deeply saddened to announce the tragic and premature death of Kevin Jackson. He was a friend and inspiration; working with him was life-enhancing and tremendous fun. He was as generous as he was brilliant; he wore his learning lightly, hated pretentiousness, forever seeking out the comic muse.
We hope that all of our friends, readers and supporters are safe and well in these difficult times.
