Robert Selby

• Shadows and Reflections: Robert Selby

  It’s time for the annual end-of-year musings known as Shadows and Reflections. Since so many of our lives were lived...

  28th December 2020

• Platalea leucorodia: a poem by Robert Selby

  * Taken from Robert’s first collection The Coming-Down Time, which has just been published by Shoestring Press. You can buy a...

  5th July 2020

• The Daylight: a poem by Robert Selby

  Leaving the mason with his cement gunto glue down the desk-style headstone,we enter the church. The door thuds shut. A...

  23rd June 2020

• The Built Moment

  Robert Selby reviews the latest poetry collection from Lavinia Greenlaw, newly published by Faber & Faber. An ‘island of sky’...

  18th February 2019

• All the Devils Are Here

  Robert Selby mulls over David Seabrook's 2002 cult debut 'All the Devils Are Here', recently published in a new edition...

  12th May 2018

• Into Graham Country

  Robert Selby makes a pilgrimage to the Cornish house of poet W.S. Graham, encountering corvids, Poldark, and surprisingly high-speed internet...

  21st November 2017

• The Promised Land

  The Promised Land: Poems from Itinerant Life by André Naffs-Sahely (Penguin, paperback, 80 pages. Out now) Review by Robert Selby...

  5th October 2017

• The Firecrests: a poem by Robert Selby

  I The hazel is ablaze with catkins. The elms nod their heads in a blue realm. Below, daffodils kiss down...

  17th June 2017

• Shadows on the Barley: a poem by Robert Selby

  When our train goes over the river sending all the bridge bats aquiver into the pink evening; when the poplar’s...

  3rd June 2017

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