Steve Ely

  • WITNESS, JONATHAN KINSMAN

    The style of the poetry pamphlet witness is reminiscent of Oswald’s Book of Hours by Steve Ely. Ely forges Anglo Saxon legend, medieval English and Biblical language with contemporary characters from West Yorkshire: Kinsman reimagines the stories of the apostles as 21st century people living in Britain. There is a portrait poem here for each…

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  • EMPIRES OF CLAY LAUNCH

      The launch of my first full poetry collection Empires of Clay began dramatically with a text from my publisher Jan Fortune of Cinnamon Press to say that she had been knocked over at York train station and had injured her leg. Fortunately she wasn’t badly hurt but she would be unable to compere the…

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  • Top Ten Poetry Collections Read or Re-read in 2015

    I know I’m not alone in producing a list of favourite contemporary poetry collections and pamphlets read or re-read in 2015 but I’m hoping this will appeal to some readers nevertheless.  It is by no means definitive and, I am, with some sadness, leaving out many others that are more than worthy of a place…

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  • Blog Tour

    Although a lot of exciting things have been happening over the last month, I’ll save those for another time.  This is a blog on request.  Poet Steve Ely, a fellow graduate of the Yorkshire Art Circus Writer Development Programme, asked me to be part of a relay of writers contributing to a blog tour in…

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