Aidan Semmens
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A raga for Enheduana
Scottish Poetry Library
As catch can
, and
At the waterworks
NOON: journal of the short poem
Another Country
, for Geraldine Monk at 70 (Blackbox Manifold)
The Queue Continuum
(International Times)
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)
Armistice Day
(International Times)
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 in print
Poems by Aidan Semmens have appeared in the following magazines:
Coast to Coast to Coast
Litmus
Long Poem Magazine
Notre Dame Review
Pirene's Fountain
Poetry Wales
The Poets' Republic
Shearsman
Tears in the Fence
Under the Radar
The Wolf
10th Muse
folded sheets
figs
Perfect Bound
Two-Fold
Palantir
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 Measure
s 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