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David Ashbee was one of the first new poets published by Enitharmon Press in 1989, with Perpetual Waterfalls. A member of Cherington Poets and Cheltenham Poetry Society, he has regularly performed in schools and festivals, and at ‘Holub,’ the Severnside poetry group he has run for 30 years. He reviews new poetry for ‘South’ magazine, in which his own work frequently appears.
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'Poems from the Mind Shop' by David Ashbee
ISBN: 978-1-913329-30-3 Paperback, 14.8 x 21cm, 130 pages Published in October 2020 RRP £12.00 "‘Poems from the Mind Shop’ is a gloriously rich book from a poet with a real love of language and the ability to evoke the extraordinary from the everyday. A close observer of people and places, David Ashbee creates finely-drawn characters whose idiosyncrasies we recognise and enjoy: ‘his chuckle like a bottle emptying’, while poems about art or nature conjure new perspectives and reveal how the world, not just his old schoolteachers, leave ‘handprints’ on his soul."
Alicia Stubbersfield Senior Lecturer in poetry and Arvon tutor Praise for Davis Ashbees previous books:
U. A. Fanthorpe described David Ashbee as ‘an incisive poet, brilliant at conveying tactile sensations, the strangeness of the moment. There is something theatrical in these gifts...’ Of his last collection, ‘Loss Adjuster’ (bluechrome, 2007), Anthony Delgrado said: ‘David Ashbee is probably the most complete poet I’ve ever met – he can do just about everything and make it look easy.’ Bill Greenwell, reviewing “Loss Adjuster” in Envoi magazine, wrote: ‘It’s one of Ashbee’s skills that he can bring poems to a cool wry conclusion.’ New Hope International Review said: ‘Ashbee is a poet of myriad mental muscles, and the power in the direction of their thrusts is usually a delightful surprise.’ |
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