The website of writer and poet Daniel Bennett
I've gone through one of those regular, and probably necessary, periods when I've stopped having much regard for poetry, especially my own. Fortunately, my teaching forces me to keep my hand in, and I'm always grateful to my students, whose dedication and enthusiasm ends up being infectious, and pulls me back in, when otherwise I … Continue reading Recent Poems
I've had three poems published on one of my favourite poetry sites, Wild Court. Here's an excerpt from one of them, 'The Epicureans'. 'Maybe because they livedon two-year work visas,sou-cheffing through Sohoor mixing their Last Wordsfor city boys in high-rise bars,comfortable in the starchof their denim aprons,as they navigated the balanceof maraschino and bitters,quoting Saki … Continue reading Wild Court
Caught By The River published another of my poems in March, a little homage to the Flatiron mountains in Colorado. 'We headed for mountainsafter dark, a drunk planhatched in his apartment,scrawled like graffitialong the strip mallscarparks and empty lots, the sullen edges of the city.I’m not sure I ever walkedso far during those days,my idea of … Continue reading Flatirons
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