Aidan Semmens
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Poems online

Poems in print

The girl with kaleidoscope eyes and six other pieces from The Jazz Age (Fortnightly Review)
​Five poems from The Jazz Age
(Litter)
The Man in the High Castle
(ink sweat and tears)
Palimpsest I and II
(Tentacular)
A Strange Geometry, Dancers & Architects, Goodbye Don't Mean I'm Gone, Light Falls, 34 Statements Amounting to a Definition
(Golden Handcuffs Review)
By a Wayside Shrine, Googly Earth, Talking Out of School, And Afterwards (Tentacular)
​For His Bad Verses (International Times)
Krasnogorskiy, Great Man Theory and New Fire (Blackbox Manifold)
Photoplay ​(Molly Bloom)
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 and The Subversive Nature of Toys (Blackbox Manifold)
Damaged Mirror
and Relics (Blackbox Manifold)
Four Distressed Sonnets (Free Verse)
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)

Lamentation and Upon the Death of John Barleycorn (Jacket)
The Strange Geometry (Jacket - from Perfect Bound)











Poems by Aidan Semmens have appeared in the following magazines:

Coast to Coast to Coast
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

Steve Spence on There Will Be Singing in Stride magazine
Peter Riley on Life Has Become More Cheerful in The Fortnightly Review
Jed Edwards on Life Has Become More Cheerful in Dundee University Review of the Arts
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 Litter magazine of Ken Edwards's memoir/novel Wild Metrics
and in Free Verse of Kelvin Corcoran's Sea Table
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