The Last Corinthians
My second collection of longer-form poems
It’s taken me a long time to assemble my second collection into a coherent state, eight years since my first. I’m delighted to say that it will be published this June, by a new, Derbyshire-based publisher, Crooked Spire Press, founded by Tim Fellows, editor of the online journal The Fig Tree. I am immensely grateful to Tim, not least for his patience.
I’m also very grateful to the members of the fortnightly workshop group I’m part of, the Collective, whose comments on drafts of a good number of the poems in the book have been very helpful; and to many other poets and other friends who have given me encouragement over the years.
The Last Corinthians includes poems previously published in The Fig Tree and a variety of other journals, including: 14 Magazine, The Alchemy Spoon, Atrium, Bad Lilies, Black Nore Review, The Friday Poem, The High Window, The Honest Ulsterman, The North, Obsessed with Pipework, One Hand Clapping, Pennine Platform, Poetry Salzburg Review and Wild Court.
There will be several launch events, as below. It would be lovely to see readers of this Substack at them. My thanks to the lovely and brilliant poets who will be reading alongside me.
Saturday 7 June, 2pm, free
Dystopia Bar (upstairs), Doncaster Brewery Tap, 7 Young Street, Doncaster, DN1 3EL;
with Victoria Gatehouse and Ed Reiss. Free. No booking necessary.
Tuesday 10 June, 7pm, free
Online; with Shash Trevett and Cliff Yates. Free. Tickets are available here.
Tuesday 17 June, 7pm for 7.30, free
The Devereux, 20 Devereux Ct, London, WC2R 3JJ; with Vanessa Lampert, Ian Parks and Mat Riches. Free. No booking necessary.
Tuesday 16 September, 7pm
Five Leaves Bookshop, 14a Long Row, Nottingham; with Kathy Pimlott and Peter Sansom. Tickets are available here.
