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admin — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:59:10 +0000

Latest publications – Telling the Bees

admin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:35:54 +0000

Nightwalking

admin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:30:04 +0000

Piles of elephant dung
steamed in headlights
as I drove through
silent London streets.
I thought of Africa,
the golden butterflies
swarming over warm
droppings, and pansy
butterflies, yellow
and purple, a handful
of flung confetti,
and the dung-beetles
juggling their loot,
and I drove around
the huge, unlikely
heaps and came upon,
like in a dream,
a procession of
elephants tip-toeing
along a sleeping street.
Whose bed I had come
from I forget,
but not elephants
nightwalking in London.

The Book I Never Wrote

admin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:09:13 +0000

A new collection of intelligent, sensitive poems from Ross Cogan.

It’s always April underneath your arms

admin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:59:59 +0000

Four hundred years too late. I cannot write
of coral lips or ruby anything.
Comparisons of eyes and suns are trite;
roses are best avoided. I can’t sing
about you in a language poets made;
English belongs to advertising men.
Poems alter nothing, Auden said
but had he never seen the reporter’s pen

sentencing millions? Let me praise you then
as best I can in words dressed for the day.
The credits roll. It’s spring. The sunlight calms
the grass; birdsong drenches the woods again.
In other words, I think I’m trying to say
it’s always April underneath your arms.

Fr Meslier’s Confession

admin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:46:36 +0000

An extraordinary tale of a French priest who lost his faith and continued to minister to his flock. A C Clarke explores his life, doubts and relationships.

Fr Meslier on his book

admin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:35:54 +0000

When I began, the naked page
challenged
like my first woman,
her breast warm to my touch.

I dipped my quill, trembling.

With a few strokes
I cancelled seventeen hundred years.
My hand moved on, discovered
the shape of my thought.

Now I am drawing to a close.

I have walked decades hand in hand
with this, the only friend
to whom I speak my mind.
I will not long survive

the ending of our daily talk.

Latest publications

admin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:45:19 +0000

January saw three new books from Oversteps: The Book I Never Wrote by Ross Cogan, Fr Meslier’s Confession by A C Clarke, and Telling the Bees by Ann Kelley. All three of these poets have been published by Oversteps before, and have proved popular.

Telling the Bees

admin — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:02:42 +0000

Fr Meslier’s Confession

admin — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:52:29 +0000