Confident in his use of Christian icons, nothing is ’sacred‘ to Paul Stubbs who is as prepared to write as God and Pope as he is Adam (and Eve). Using paintings by Francis Bacon as their starting points, these poems delve into baroque realms of psychological and philosophical thought, filling the unknown with urgent possibility. To each neo-operatic poem he brings wit and classical knowledge to build a singular and aesthetic passion. Yet throughout the landscape of these poems, there are reminders of the business of living with pain, desire and faith. This is not a book for the faint-hearted, but those who enter will be well rewarded, emerging with a renewed conviction of their own choices in viewing the world and our construction of it.
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Paul Stubbs was born in Norwich and now lives in Paris. He left school at sixteen and worked in various jobs around the country before beginning to write. His poems have appeared in a variety of magazines, and in 2005, he received two awards for his writing from the Society of Authors and the Arts Council of England. His debut collection, The Theological Museum appeared in 2005, and second, The Icon Maker, in 2008. He has read at various places, including the Seamus Heaney Centre in Belfast, the King’s Lynn Festival and in New York. In 2002 he was one of 37 British poets commissioned by the Globe Theatre in London to write a poem commemorating the bicentenary of Wordsworth’s sonnet ‚On Westminster Bridge‘.
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