{"title":"Paul Groves","description":"Paul Groves was brought up in Wales, to which he has returned after living for twenty-five years in the Forest of Dean. He has been strikingly successful in national and international competitions and has published poetry and criticism in a wide range of periodicals, including \u003cem\u003eThe London Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePoetry Review\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/em\u003e. He lives in Monmouth.\n\nPaul Groves reads his poem 'Daylight Robbery':\n\n[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1yrZdhbRji4[\/youtube]","products":[{"product_id":"the-iron-book-of-new-humorous-verse","title":"The Iron Book of New Humorous Verse","description":"Iron Press is publishing the first anthology exclusively dedicated to contemporary humorous verse, taking into account new fashions in performance poetry. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMore than 100 poems are included and among the contributors are Ian McMillan, Kate Fox, Jacob Polley, Linda France, Andy Croft, David Bateman, John Whitworth, and Paul Groves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll the selections, picked from more than 1500 poems from throughout the world, were originally published post-1990. Subjects include a paeon to a wonderbra, a knitted orgasm, stuffing your husband and the annual shindig for Greenland’s literary elite.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEileen Jones\u003c\/b\u003e (editor) lives in Tynedale. After a career as a social worker in west Newcastle, and as an NHS commissioning manager in Northumberland, she now writes poetry and plays. Her poetry has been published in \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e, in magazines such as \u003ci\u003eThe North\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOther Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e and in anthologies. She is well-known for her readings on NE1 community radio and at performance poetry venues like ‘Northern Lines’, ‘Ten by Ten’ and ‘Free as a Bard’. She also helped to establish Carte Blanche, the Newcastle-based group for women writers.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Iron Press","offers":[{"title":"Book","offer_id":1040824708,"sku":"9780955245091","price":8.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/2_2_9484f1f4-b1b6-458f-bc9d-ac179b2b8bbe.jpeg?v=1752237109"},{"product_id":"qwerty","title":"Qwerty","description":"\"Paul Groves is a deft storyteller, genial ironist, and brilliant portraitist. His poems are superb.\" \u003cbr\u003eWilliam Oxley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Groves's style is distinctive, owing something to Larkin, not only in its politically incorrect manner and determination to call a spade a spade, but in a certain incredulousness at human fate.\"\u003cbr\u003eJohn Greening\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"When people have asked who they should read in recent British poetry I've said Paul Groves.\"\u003cbr\u003eGrevel Lindop\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis fresh collection contains not only the type of ironic, sly, and coolly witty poems we have come to expect from this writer (the unlikely drama of a 'Convention of Russian Undertakers', the horrors of a party of 'Greenland Literati', two unexpectedly refined fitters in 'Against Stereotype') but also material with quirky turns and melancholic hints, such as the surreal and oddly moving 'Fly in a Hospital' and the elegiac 'Falling off the Chrysler Building'. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eElsewhere he allows himself playful flourishes, as in 'Between Baroque and a Hard Place', a paean to putty. The family, rather than being a source of solace, becomes a venue for humiliation, adultery, sadism, even murder as in 'Strewth', where the annoying spouse is seen off in a deserving manner. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFormally acute, frequently funny, and often provocative, this book will delight existing fans and recruit many new ones.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaul Groves\u003c\/b\u003e is a Creative Writing lecturer, and reviews for leading literary periodicals. He has read widely at festivals and worked in schools and colleges for over three decades. \u003ci\u003eQwerty\u003c\/i\u003e is his fifth volume of verse, following the critically acclaimed collections \u003ci\u003eAcademe\u003c\/i\u003e (1988), \u003ci\u003eMenage à Trois\u003c\/i\u003e (1995), \u003ci\u003eEros and Thanatos\u003c\/i\u003e (1999), and \u003ci\u003eWowsers\u003c\/i\u003e (2002), as well as a memoir, \u003ci\u003eCountry Boy\u003c\/i\u003e. 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