My first collection of poetry, The Golden Age, has just been published
by Bellew Publishing (paperback, £7.99). Yes, I am sending this just to
get attention (without readers, where am I?), but I think you'll find
the work justifies the shouting. See the comments below, taken from the
back cover copy:
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'I love the moments of serenity, the unfailing gravity, with sometimes a
little gentle irony, showing an oeuvre of great power, founded as well
on Truth and Love, like the room in 'Home', those few so understated
verses?We need these utopias without illusions' -- YVES BONNEFOY
[France's greatest living poet, and Professor of Comparative Poetics at
the College de France]
'Great clarity and confidence...unstrained but rich' -- PETER SCUPHAM
'Paul St John Mackintosh is writing singularly skilful and attractive
poems. At the heart of his work is a love of his medium. He delights in
word-wit. His use of rhyme is uninhibited and joyous. He is utterly
alive to rhythm and sound and form and tone. One can imagine Auden
giving his craftsmanship an approving grunt.
Poems such as 'The Magic Kingdom', 'The Life and Death of Sir John
Oldcastle, Lord Cobham' and 'An Expressionist Passion' -- a terrifying
and moving rewrite of Christ's crucifixion -- convince me that this is a
young poet worth following and worth listening to' -- KEVIN
CROSSLEY-HOLLAND
'A classical sense of form and order . . . bold assertions of truly
classic values, committed enough to outface easy cynical responses' --
PHILIP GROSS
'Poems which combine formal accomplishment with a lively inventiveness
in treating a range of subjects -- notably the foreign landscapes which
he knows well and renders with accuracy and sympathy' -- ALAN BROWNJOHN
'What singles itself out for immediate comment is the poems' remarkable
voice and vocabulary . . . a genuine poetic diction, regularly using
improbable rhymes and half-rhymes . . . natural, playful and
provocative' -- RICHARD MAYNE
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Paul St John Mackintosh
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The book's available through any bookshop, or direct from Ib Bellew or
David Elliott at:
Bellew Publishing [non-Web literate, which is why I'm doing this
myself]
Nightingale Centre
8 Balham Hill
London SW12 9EA
Tel: 0181-673-5611
Fax. 0181-675 2142
Thanks for your forbearance, and enjoy the book!
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