Seething since 2000*
Between Empires is a collection of poems composed in 2002 while travelling through the USA, the UK and Germany, and first published online in 2003. In 2012, as part of a burst of reissues, I re-edited and compiled the book,…
Abendland II contains twenty-one poems originally written while travelling in the United States and Europe in 2005 but never compiled in book form. It is a companion volume to Abendland (2006/2012). Of the poems in the collection, only one, ‘Travelling…
Abendland first appeared in 2006, and contains twenty-one poems written while travelling through North America and Europe in 2005. The poems in Abendland were written between July and August 2005. The text of this second edition was reformatted and revised.…
I met Kwame Dawes, the editor of Lincoln, Nebraska-based journal Prairie Schooner, at the Struga Poetry Evenings in Macedonia in 2011. Following the festival, Kwame invited me, as the editor of Cordite Poetry Review, to collaborate on a joint issue,…
Abendland is an archaic term for ‘the West’ and translates from the German (roughly) as ‘evening land’. Abendland was self-published in print in 2006. The poems in Abendland were all written while travelling in the United States and Europe in…
In 2002 I spent three weeks travelling in the USA, the UK and Germany. During my travels I wrote a series of poems, which I later decided to compile under the title Between Empires. The poems in Between Empires were…
