Ross Cogan
Ross Cogan was born in 1970 and studied philosophy at various universities. His poetry and essays are widely published in journals and he won a Gregory Award in 1999. Ross is the Creative Director of the Cheltenham Poetry Festival.
Sample poems
Stalin’s Desk
It’s always April underneath your arms
Oversteps publications
The Book I Never Wrote (2012)
Stalin’s Desk (2005)
…he might have heard the knife working its stone,
the blade’s argument against the soft faith
of flesh, the disquisition mapping his limbs,
the whirring buzz-saw hum of the mind of God.
Recent news
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.
Ross Cogan has both a poem and an essay in the latest issue of Orbis (157). His new collection, ‘The Book I Never Wrote’, will be published by Oversteps early in the new year.
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