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Playing Pool | Jugar al billar
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Playing Pool The playing surface of the table is called the bed.Oddly,
everything starts with a breaking of balls. A nice layout after the break
is called ...
2 weeks ago
I've been waiting for David Hickey's first collection of poetry for a few years now, and it's finally happened. In the Lights of a Midnight Plow has been published by Biblioasis. I've read and been delighted by some of the poems in various forms, and I'm looking forward to the moment (hopefully tomorrow) when I have the book in my hands and can see where the poems I've read have taken themselves and can immerse myself in some poems I've never seen.
Here's an interview David did with the Northern Poetry Review:
I think our willingness to entertain a variety of poetic sensibilities, paired with our ability to see them for what they are, enables us to advance not only our own appreciation of what we're up to as writers, but also to get the most out of what poetry has to offer.