More Bloody ClerihewsFollowing their widely ignored 2019 anthology The Call of the Clerihew, George Szirtes and Andy Jackson make another doomed attempt to interest the world in the ridiculous four line biographical poetic form known as the Clerihew. Invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875 1956) when he was a schoolboy, the Clerihew is a childish and pointless anti Panegyric consisting of flat footed, Hudibrastic quatrains designed to lower the tone and cut everyone

This anthology of versions by 16 contemporary poets from around the world of the 33 Cantos of Dante’s Purgatorio  is published to mark the 700th centenary of Dante’s death in 1321

What the bearers of meaning do not say

Written for and dedicated to the authors

Oman and Kuwait

Jenny guessed

his grandson

is one of Norwegian literature

Dealing with crises all-too familiar today – the loss of friends to suicide

and this study of McLean is – like Workout

One of those rights is freedom of speech

He is that rare poet who can hear speech as it was meant to be written

1963: weeks before the assassination of President Kennedy