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In my role as proprietor I have put myself at the head of the list of poets on the right. A click on my name will lead to most of the work in poem form that I have done since The Book of My Enemy came out in 2003. Eventually most of these poems will be collected into a further book, at which point they will probably vanish from the screen until such time as the book goes out of print, whereupon they will reappear. But I sincerely hope that there will always be more poems than a current book can hold, even if I have to send them through from the beyond. I have always had at least one new poem in the works ever since I began to write, and I wouldn’t want to be stopped by a little thing like lack of oxygen.
Ranked below my name, in their order of joining, are the names of guest poets who have generously agreed to see a short selection of their work included on this website. Each is represented by ten poems. In every case the author has done the choosing, from work either already published in book form or else waiting to be published in the near future. Most of them are young enough to have future in abundance. (“They crowd us from the world,” said Pushkin.) The aim is to build up a gallery of poets whose work interests me so much that I don’t see why it shouldn’t interest everybody else as well, even people who don’t habitually read poetry. They would, I think, if it were all like this.
Eventually I am going to look pretty frail, limping along at the head of such a glittering procession, but if I have to retire to a roadside café I hope to get some credit for having once been the man in charge.