{"title":"William Oxley","description":"William Oxley was born in Manchester. A poet and philosopher, he has also worked as accountant, part-time gardener, and actor.  He divides his time between London and South Devon. \n\nHis poems have been widely published throughout the world, in magazines and journals as diverse as The New York Times and The Formalist (USA), The Scotsman, New Statesman, The London Magazine, Stand, The Independent, The Spectator and The Observer. Following the publication of a number of his works on the Continent in the ’eighties and ’nineties, he was dubbed ‘Britain’s first Europoet’  He has read his work on UK and European radio and is the only British poet to have read in Shangri-la, (Nepal). Among his recent books of poetry have been Collected Longer Poems (Salzburg University Press, 1994), and Reclaiming the Lyre:  New and Selected Poems  (Rockingham Press, 2001). \n\nA former member of the General Council of the Poetry Society, he is consultant editor of Acumen. The founder of the Long Poem Group, he co-edits its newsletter; and in 1999 his autobiography No Accounting for Paradise came from Rockingham Press.  He was Millennium Year poet-in-residence for Torbay in Devon.  A limited edition print employing lines from his epic, A Map of Time, was chosen by the Dept. of Cartography, University of Wisconsin to use, with appropriate illustration, in their Annual Broadsheet for 2002.  Another of his long poems, Over the Hills of Hampstead, was awarded first prize by the on-line long poem magazine, Echoes of Gilgamesh.  \n\nHe has co-edited the anthology Modern Poets of Europe (Spiny Babbler, Nepal 2004);  and in the autumn of 2004, Hearing Eye published Namaste his Nepal poems, and Bluechrome published his London Visions in Spring 2005.  A study of his poetry, The Romantic Imagination, came out in 2005 from Poetry Salzburg;  and a fine limited edition of his Poems Antibes was launched in December 2006 in France.  In 2008 he received the Torbay ArtsBase Award for Literature.","products":[{"product_id":"poems-antibes","title":"Poems Antibes","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"William Oxley at his best uses a direct no-nonsense first-person voice, with a satirical edge... I admire Oxley's efforts to write a spiritual poetry for our time and his refusal to give up on the traditional subject.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e- John Greening in The London Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere is William Oxley at his traditional and spiritual best.  These are poems of sun, sea and sensuality - narrated in his no-nonsense first-person voice with a satirical edge\".  But Oxley is well read and here are echoes of Paul Valery and of the painters who found similar inspiration on the Cote d'Azure\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rockingham Press","offers":[{"title":"Book","offer_id":1040859480,"sku":"9781904851158","price":10.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/2_2_5883070f-507b-46c1-ba57-6020863cbd5e.jpeg?v=1752237876"},{"product_id":"reclaiming-the-lyre-new-selected-poems-1967-2000","title":"Reclaiming the Lyre: New \u0026 Selected Poems 1967-2000","description":"\u003ci\u003eThis is the poetry of largesse, gusto.  Oxley's poetry should be quaffed rather than sipped.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIan Caws in \u003ci\u003eSouth Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a long career as a poet, \u003cb\u003eWilliam Oxley\u003c\/b\u003e has been involved in the New Poetry Group of the \u003ci\u003eLamb \u0026amp; Flag\u003c\/i\u003e pub in the sixties, served on the General Council of the Poetry Society, founded the Long Poem Group and been the Torbay Poet-in-Residence.  This selection includes many poems from the past as well as new poems about London and Nepal.","brand":"Rockingham Press","offers":[{"title":"Book","offer_id":1040859516,"sku":"9781873468814","price":7.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/2_2_7541ea92-cc2f-48a8-98e6-ed48f6551259.jpeg?v=1752236942"},{"product_id":"the-green-crayon-man","title":"The Green Crayon Man","description":"\u003ci\u003eThe White Table, 4am.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYou are asleep my hope-and-all\u003cbr\u003ein the guest room above the night wind\u003cbr\u003ewhile I, at the white table,\u003cbr\u003eponder nervous sounds of yet another night,\u003cbr\u003ea wakeful speck of metropolitan thought.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is the hour of the burglar\u003cbr\u003eand the anxious father, of late lovers\u003cbr\u003eand tragic drinkers...\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam Oxley\u003c\/b\u003e retired from London and accountancy to become a poet in Devon.  Since then he had devoted himself with gusto to every form of verse, especially the long poem which he with \u003cb\u003eSebastian Barker\u003c\/b\u003e champions in the Long Poem Group.  The poems here range widely across history, philosophy and experience and art - \u003ci\u003ethe green crayon man\u003c\/i\u003e being Van Gogh.","brand":"Rockingham Press","offers":[{"title":"Book","offer_id":1040859636,"sku":"9781873468548","price":6.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/2_2_dcc9ab7b-e1df-4c00-a35b-a3408f9a9cb1.jpeg?v=1752236724"},{"product_id":"in-the-drift-of-words","title":"In the Drift of Words","description":"\u003ci\u003eOut of Into or Truth's Process\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWater drops drying in the white sun\u003cbr\u003eOn any branch or Rockingham Press\u003cbr\u003eAre little buds of eternity\u003cbr\u003eAlways vanishing out of sight:\u003cbr\u003eOut of rain or spume words come -\u003cbr\u003eOf their brief form take stock\u003cbr\u003eThey are the eggs of certainty\u003cbr\u003eTruth laid down by light.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam Oxley\u003c\/b\u003e retired from London and accountancy to become a poet in Devon.  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He has given readings of his work in places as far removed as Nepal, Canada and the South of France where his Poems Antibes was launched in 2006. The current volume gathers together a selection of his poems since his collection of London poems, London Visions, appeared in 2005. 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