Poems, Poetry, Poets
What surprised me in this process of putting a pamphlet together was the amount of work that would go into the stage between manuscript submission and the signing off of the final proof. It happened over over a week to ten days, by the end of which I worried I had really annoyed the production manager, Suzannah, and... Continue Reading →
It's been an eventful couple of months, not least because a fortnight ago I found out that I’d won the Poetry Business pamphlet competition judged by Billy Collins, who said of my poems: ‘Funny and quite serious at the same time, these poems cast a fresh, ironic eye on contemporary life and find a wild... Continue Reading →
Well, it's almost 2 months since my last post. Apart from a serious eye injury a week ago when a plastic cork exploded in my left eye, while celebrating moving into my new flat, meaning I have spent a considerable amount of time in the French national eye hospital behind Bastille opera house - I... Continue Reading →
Paul Stephenson 