Poems online

Poems in print

For His Bad Verses (International Times)
Forbidden Morning (Smithereens)
Krasnogorskiy, Great Man Theory and New Fire (Blackbox Manifold)
The Pianist of Petrograd and Avant-Gardists in the Service of the Proletariat (Molly Bloom)
Two short poems (Noon)
News of the World (Free Verse)
If You Live Long Enough You See Everything (Free Verse)
Kiddush Cup (Molly Bloom)
The Vanishing of Workers' Settlement #3 (Molly Bloom)
Corrupt Text (Molly Bloom)
Fun (Molly Bloom)
Dust to Dust (B O D Y)
Six distressed sonnets from The Book of Isaac (Otoliths)
Two sonnets from The Book of Isaac (Blackbox Manifold)
Black Light Machine (Blackbox Manifold)
The Subversive Nature of Toys (Blackbox Manifold)
Damaged Mirror (Blackbox Manifold)
Relics (Blackbox Manifold)
Four Distressed Sonnets (Free Verse)
Five sonnets from The Book of Isaac (Shadowtrain)
The Uncertainty Principle (Shadowtrain)
In the Process (Shadowtrain)
Phenomenology (Shadowtrain)
In Tombland (Great Works)
Where Is He That Counted The Towers? (Great Works)
And Brake Them Beneath The Mount (Great Works)
Depicting the Artist As (Great Works)
From Afar (Great Works)
Torch Song (Great Works)
Five sonnets from The Book of Isaac (Stride)
As Far As I Can See (Stride)
On the Pleasure Beach (Stride)
Formalities (Stride)
Wave (Jack)
By the River (Jack)
A Rolling Motion (Jack)
A Letter to America (Jack)
Lamentation (Jacket)
Upon the Death of John Barleycorn (Jacket)
The Strange Geometry (Jacket - from Perfect Bound)

Poems by Aidan Semmens have appeared in the following magazines:

10th Muse
Litmus
Long Poem Magazine
Notre Dame Review
Pirene's Fountain
Poetry Wales
Shearsman
Tears in the Fence
Under the Radar
The Wolf

Reviews

Rodney Pybus on Uncertain Measures in Litter
Peter Riley on The Book of Isaac in The Fortnightly Review
Stephan Delbos on The Book of Isaac in B O D Y
Alan Baker on A Stone Dog in Litter

Also: review by Aidan Semmens in Free Verse of Kelvin Corcoran's Sea Table