Eggplant Strategy is Clive’s collection of new poems and reworked former poems, some of which were first published in the Knives, Forks and Spoons Press. Eggplant Strategy is his strategy for the UK running counter to that put forward by Liz Truss and later Rishi Sunak. He realises though the PM’s still hard at work on the five pledges.

Statues (from New Note Poetry) https://www.newnotepoetry.com/autumn-2022 (from August last year)

Statutes

 fractured howls
delayed warnings
(brass coppers)
left on beaches
slight hint of trumpets distil the air
 
across deserts of seas
dislodging sandcastles
discontented rabid capitalists
collect forms from the autopsies
 
 
rewinding giant spheres
mere calligraphy
another monument grazed

A Fevers of the Mind Quick-9 Interview with Clive Gresswell

Clive Gresswell is a 64-year-old innovative writer and poet who has appeared in many mags from BlazeVOX to Poetry Wars and Tears in the Fence. He is the author of five poetry books…