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Nigel Derbyshire

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Nigel Derbyshire grew up in Norfolk, is well travelled & now lives in Cambridgeshire.

An eater of cheese, drinker of red wine & ale, he is a reformed lover of people and conversation. Always adventuring into the textures of life, Nigel occasionally remembers to write some of it down.

Crafting dense free verse poetry, Nigel meanders the boundaries between his internal reality and the external perception of reality.

Not as scary as he sounds, feel free to connect via twitter @carbonwriter or email nigel@carbonwriter.net ...more

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What am I?

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That is the wrong question.

Everyone wants to be something. Everyone wants to be someone. I lay claim to both of those.

As I muse about it, I think we are all missing the point. We feel that we need to get somewhere. We feel that we need to change in some way.

I have a basic problem with that.

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People change. Society changes. Humanity changes. Humans evolve.

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Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know

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For Richer, For Poorer: Confessions of a Player

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No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read it!) Goodreads honors wordsmiths: poets and poetry promoted and prompted here. ~~~ "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." -- Carl Sandburg “God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.” —Anne Sexton On Clouds – “…what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about…” —Yevgeny Zamyatin “If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn’t wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.” —Donald Hall “Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.” —Boris Pasternak “Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.” —Charles Simic “Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.” —Gustave Flaubert “Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.” —Allen Ginsberg. ~~~~~ Amy King, Moderator Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Women’s National Book Association). Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She serves on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and is co-editing with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology, Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She is also co-editing the anthology, Bettering American Poetry 2015, and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. ...more