Poem in Shape-Shifter: a tribute to Gavin Selerie

My poem gallimawfrey is in the Shearsman Books publication Shape-Shifter: a tribute to Gavin Selerie. David Annwn has edited this festschrift for one of the UK’s most exciting poets of recent decades.

From the Shearsman Books website:

Gavin Selerie – poet, and Shearsman author – is currently one of the most skilful and imaginative exponents of the long, book-length poem in English. His friends and colleagues gather together here in this volume to offer poems, essays, interviews, memoirs, photographs and artworks in his honour, along with some reprinted pieces by Gavin himself.

Contributors with Gavin himself are Gilbert Adair, Gillian Allnutt, David Annwn, Tilla Brading, Ian Brinton, Lyndon Davies, Laurie Duggan, Andrew Duncan, Ken Edwards, Amy Evans Bauer, Allen Fisher, Harry Gilonis, John Goodby, Giles Goodland, Alan Halsey, Robert Hampson, Randolph Healy, Jeff Hilson, Paul Holman, David Hackbridge Johnson, Ian MacFadyen, Matt Martin, Ian McMillan, Susana Medina, Anthony Mellors, Peter Middleton, David Miller, Lesley Newland, Frances Presley, Elaine Randell, Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino, Peterjon Skelt, Yasmin Skelt, Simon Smith and Mandie Wright.

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Cover of Shape-Shifter: a tribute to Gavin Selerie (Swindon: Shearsman Books, 2022), featuring Allen Fisher’s painting Lugg Mill Study, (c) Allen Fisher.