Patrick Davidson Roberts
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A sacred interest: On ‘The Green Parcel’ by John Challis
Patrick Davidson Roberts Having continued to get older to such a degree that I’ve stopped pretending I’m not taking it personally, and having moved house in the past year, the periodical time has come for a chucking-out of trash and a debunking of several aphorisms that are taking up space in my life that…
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Two poems from ‘Divided Tongues’ by Patrick Davidson Roberts
Below are two poems from Divided Tongues, the new collection from Patrick Davidson Roberts, published this month by Broken Sleep Books. Patrick will be part of Broken Sleep’s forthcoming online launch reading event on 2nd January. Details here. Aphrodite I am comforted by couples composed of people younger than mewho seem to be on…
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Two poems by Patrick Davidson Roberts
Lilburne’s Prayer Oh god; guide of hand and tongue through pamphlet, pillory and prisonwho walked with me from Kineton, washed me in blood all the way to Marston,who spoke within my Elizabeth as a happy band of offspringand never held my temper whether facing mob or king.God that cast the fortune which would not let…
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Wisdom joined with simplicity: on Andrew Motion’s New & Selected
Patrick Davidson Roberts It’s been twenty-five years since Andrew Motion’s first Selected Poems was published by Faber & Faber and for him personally, and for the world, a lot has occurred in the meantime. For him, there has been ten years as Poet Laureate, personal upheavals, professional successes, and a relocation to Baltimore. For all…
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Two poems by Patrick Davidson Roberts
Photo by Javier Balseiro on Unsplash Caiaphas I am content with what I have done in my time, and have little to alter. You fit your mind to the world around and pray that one bears the other. I am not visited at night by ghosts of the men that…
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Two poems by Patrick Davidson Roberts
The Train The concern, unspoken amongst us, was whether goodwill would hold. We’d been on the road for weeks; children walking alongside the wagons until they fell and were thrown on top. Last Monday, however, we made landfall. The ridge achieved and this small place found. We pitched at the river.…
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Five poems from ‘The Mains’ by Patrick Davidson Roberts
Below are five poems from Patrick Davidson Roberts’s debut collection, The Mains, recently published by Vanguard Editions. The collection is being launched at the London Review Bookshop, Bloomsbury, this Thursday evening (8th February) from 6.30pm: all are welcome. Event details here. Barbara Villiers for James Brookes Worked on by the…