“Wordsworth defines poetry as the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity.”
Here you will find a selection of my poems, which I keep updating now and then, alongside full texts of a few of the poets who shaped how I read and write.
International Poetry
Alongside my own writing I have kept a small shelf of poetry in translation, including Arthur Rimbaud’s synesthetic sonnet “Voyelles”, and a collection of Arabic-language poetry, including a guide to Federico García Lorca’s best-known poems. T. S. Eliot is on the shelf too — if “East Coker” is where you start, I put together a section-by-section guide to go with it. I have also kept the Epic of Gilgamesh here, one of the oldest surviving works of literature and a poem I keep returning to. If the cast of gods and monsters is new to you, I put together a full summary of the Epic of Gilgamesh and its characters to go with the text.
Reading List
Two items from the original archive — my own “Arthur” poem and a John Keats collection — were only partially captured by the Wayback Machine and are being re-scanned before they return to this list.
One of my more recent poems was published on ahewar.org. For prose rather than verse, visit the stories collection.