James Peake
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‘Parts of us regenerate, others don’t’: On Dan O’Brien
James Peake The photojournalist and Pulitzer-prize winner, Paul Watson, is a friend, collaborator and in “complicated ways, almost family” to the poet and playwright Dan O’Brien. He tells O’Brien that “people don’t notice how quickly we die”. You might expect such from someone who has successfully reported on some of the…
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Four poems by James Peake
James Peake’s debut collection, Reaction Time of Glass, will be published by Two Rivers Press on 21st July. Below are four poems by James, including, from the book, ‘Marine Snow, Hammersmith’. Marine Snow, Hammersmith The flyover this late is less than human, the only evident affection drops from the sodium…
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Three poems by James Peake
The Skin of Epimenides Read The Seven Sages and you’re asked to believe this loner cured all Athens of disease, backwards prophet who saw past not future, first things first, like the irruption of order into cosmos. But a seer doesn’t want for time and is free to pen nothing in…