My new pamphlet of poetry is out now! Thirty poems spanning ten years with a sort of theme.
Trees, whales, blood & black holes; sulphur, uranium & carbon; lost friends & beloved music.
Find out more & buy it here.
"I
was repeatedly gripped and surprised by its poems. Daring at an
almost Swinburnian floridity, these are always ‘hymns’ and never
songs, chanted under a sky that is ever 'darkening' if it is
there at all. The poems pulse and seethe with a rare voluptuousness.
The literary equivalents of swirling synths, both alchemy and early
Tangerine Dream serve as objective correlatives for their metaphors;
these poems clamour at meaning, are swept away by the surge of their
own diction only to be swept back in on an urge to connect... For
these poems are suffused with the kind of generous vision that sees a
dancer rather than a corpse, spurns the inhibitions of the
fear-cravers, and takes time to sit with a “horned godling”. What
others see as obstacles, these poems open as doorways."
From the introduction by Phil
Smith, author of Albion's Eco-Eerie,
Temporal Boundary Press.
"A song amongst the noise. A poet whose
words you feel as well as read. When I read Patterson's poetry and prose
it makes me realise why I fell in love with poetry as he makes the
world-scapes dance and shine brighter by the way he writes."
Anthony Owen, author of Post Atomic Glossaries: New & selected poems, Broken Sleep Books.
"I
love Barry Patterson's poetry! It is full of guts and energy:
wonderfully vivid and powerful imagery, coupled with depth and a
profound connection to life. I just can't put this collection down!"
Philip Carr-Gomm, author of Druid Mysteries, Rider.
