Hungry Bentley make a song out of my poem

Hi All

My poem Book of Invasions has been turned into a cracking song by the group Hungry Bentley.

Please check them out at their myspace - here:Hungry Bentley
and you can get your ears round the song by clicking here: Listen here

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Interview on Weekend Edition (NPR)

Hi All,

My interview from Weekend Edition on National Public Radio is available to listen to online at the link below.

listen to the interview here

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Part two of the Buzzwords reading is now up

Hi All,

click here to listen to the second half of the reading at Buzzwords

Best wishes,

Nigel.

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Live reading uploaded here

Hi Everyone,

You can here part one of my reading (the first 20mins) in Cheltenham at Buzzwords live by clicking here

hope you enjoy.

Part 2 (the second 20 mins) will follow shortly.

best wishes,

Nigel.

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Another review of Dissonances

Hi All,

Mike Begnal has reviewed Dissonances for Todd Swift’s blogzine ’Eyewear’ - you can read it here:

Dissonances review

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First Review of Dissonances Online Now!

Hi All,

The first review of Dissonances has just been published online:.

here's the link!

best wishes,

Nigel.

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Dissonances Direct!

My new book is now available to buy direct from the publisher - and they won't charge a £2 sourcing fee unlike some booksellers we could mention! Here's the link!

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free poetry books!

Some of you can get 'Dissonances' for free by becoming a random reviewer here:

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Dissonances publication date today

Hi Everyone.

To celebrate the publication of my new collection, Dissonances, I thought I'd post a poem from it to whet your appetites. It might even encourage one or two of you to part with some hard-earned cash and buy the book

It's currently going at 34% discount on Amazon here

It's a really nice book - hardback clothbound, olive green endpapers, 80pp of poems, nice paper - all for £8.50!

Anyway, enough sales pitch - here's the poem....it was previously published in Poetry Review.


Night Fire

and a frost of sweet winter air
goosepimples at the window
and my skin

bitter-warm
coffee in the mouth bursts
in the gullet, sings like a glow
inside

outside the moon
is just risen over the horizon
of a hedge, stars breakneck
above the yard-square

hedged
eight feet high on all sides,
the three-walled dark shadows
my claustrophobia

the city
glows around the bowl of the sky.
I circle the bonfire under
the cone of starlight

name
the familiars. Caolfionn
sees something else beyond
the rim of heat: an expanse
opening up full

of planes
and helicopters, dark and twinkling
and rockets I don't see.

He is
lifted up on the wing
of a cuckoo he invokes
at the end of each incantation.
He numbers us all on the wing,
draws us all up

where he stands
at my shoulder. Euan raises
one finger, points into the void,
shouts out

into the vowel of the sky
and that too is open lipped, hemmed
on all sides by the red horizon
that stretches out and rolls back
as we all stand amazed

raising
one finger Adam-like towards
a god as yet un-named,

trying
to guess what it is each other sees.
"Sky" I say. "Moon" says Caolfionn.
"Star" says Teresa. "O" says Euan
"O" he says again, but surer.

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Dissonances available for pre-order 1/3 off!

Hi All.

Just to let you know that my new book is now available to pre-order on Amazon at 1/3 discount!

It's a hardback edition, normally retailing at £12.99 but can be yours if you order now for £8.57

here's the link:

click here!

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