Biography
Born in North Wales and now living in Devon Paul’s debut collection, Fault Line, was published last year by Lapwing and nominated this year for the Seamus Heaney Centre Prize for Best 1st Collection. The book also inspired a complete art exhibition with four artists producing more than 40 works based on the poems. The exhibition toured the South West throughout 2016. Paul is a regular performer on the South West circuit having headlined this year at several events including Exeter and Torquay and in November staged a one-man hour long poetry show at the Taunton Literary Festival. He has also appeared at several other literary festivals including Purbeck, Tiverton and Porlock. He has a poetry blog at https://welshstream.wordpress.com/
Samples
Sheep Spine Life and death bleached on to this peaty moonscape. Here it is elemental. Moor and sun, a harsh unforgiving beauty. Knuckle on knuckle, each notch etched clear in its whiteness. No wool. No flesh. No muscle. Picked clean. Simplicity of structure in the chaos of wilderness. This is where it all ends. Bone and earth. Jackdaws Harsh chatter cuts through the baking air seething across our roof tiles. They are arrogant, ice-eyed, chopping up a blackbird’s melody that’s been flooding the river’s beat. Theirs is not birdsong, just nature’s practical edge. Functional. A rooting in the ordinary. Like that faint rocking of traffic.
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