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Still This Need now
available online at Waterstones, Amazon, or direct from the distributors Central Books.
Some reviews:
It is very much a proper collection. There are no fat nor empty gestures
within, no fireworks that glisten briefly before fading away, no showing off nor grandstanding. Just poetry at its very finest.
Honestly hewn from a poet comfortable in his landscape and at home with the very business of writing poetry before being generously
handed over to the reader with a minimum of fuss....This really is a magnificent
debut collection and you are left with the overriding feeling that this is only the beginning of what will become an intriguing
and fascinating journey. You really should get in there early and buy this book.
Matt
Nunn, Under The Radar
His mode of observation may be nearly Wordsworthian, but McKimm is not merely concerned
with the act of looking and seeing; his work is far more sensually evocative....The language in ‘The Moose’, as in most of
the collection, is simple — sometimes surprising — but never abrasive. The collection leans on tradition with
its attention to naturalism, geography, and in particular, ornithology, but opens itself up to the reader most successfully
when observation is transcended by the sensual.
Charlotte Newman, Horizon Review. Read the full review here
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My poem 'Still Life with Five Nests' is published in Best Irish Poetry 2010,
edited by Matthew Sweeney. Containing 50 poems that have appeared in journals during the past year, the 2010 edition
contains poems by Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, Derek Mahon, Paul Muldoon, Leanne O'Sullivan, Leontia Flynn, Eva Bourke,
Kerry Hardie and many others.
It can be purchased direct from the Munster Literature Centre here, where there are also special offers on the previous editions.
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Dove Release: New
Flights and Voices
Edited by David Morley, Dove Release documents
a decade of writing at The University of Warwick. It features poems by sixty writers, most of them poets
in their twenties, including some winners of the Eric Gregory Awards, as well as work by more senior poets. What
unites them is a course at Warwick University called 'The Practice of Poetry'.
This anthology is available from Worple Press, PO Box 328, Tonbridge,
Kent, TN9 1WR, priced £10.00. Also available from Central Books
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Other publications
Anthologies:
Heaventree New Poets Volume 1: Zoe Brigley, Michael McKimm, George Ttoouli (Heaventree, 2004)
Phoenix New Writing (Heaventree, 2004) Sherb:
New Urban Writing from Coventry (Heaventree, 2006) The Shuffle Anthology (The Shuffle Press, 2008)
Journals
Avocado
The Interpreter’s House Magma Oxford
Poetry PN Review The
Warwick Review The Wolf
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