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Under the Sun

Posted on June 21, 2024 by admin • 0 Comments

ISBN 978-1-9163680-1-9

2024

Voicemail Press

£10

Under the Sun takes up where Human Time (2020) left off. This new collecton contains poems on a variety of subjects and in various moods and modes. Once again, humour is mixed with sadness and free verse with formal poetry. There are delicate poems about nature and yet human concerns remain very much to the fore. Duncan Forbes captures memorable moments and also has a deep sense of time and time passing. The poems express their ideas colourfully with his characteristic verve, accomplishment, elegance, poignancy, wit and insight.

In the course of a writing life, Duncan Forbes has won numerous prizes for his work including a Gregory Award and aTLS/Blackwells Prize. His poems have been published or anthologised by Faber, Secker, Penguin, Bloodaxe and Enitharmon.

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Human Time

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2020 Voicemail Press ISBN 978-1-9163680-0-2 BUY THE BOOK For international shipping costs and large quantity orders please contact Duncan Forbes here. ‘I’ve had several intensely pleasurable readings of Human Time and it seems to me to be your most successful and complete collection, hugely varied in style, tone, verse forms (how you can play with… Continue Reading

Lifelines

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2009 BUY THE BOOK For international shipping costs and large quantity orders please contact Duncan Forbes here. A lively and versatile poet, Duncan Forbes can deal with life’s events in modes both comic and tragic. With his eye for detail and strong understanding of traditions, he approaches the enduring themes of poetry in fresh and… Continue Reading

Vision Mixer

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2008 BUY THE BOOK For international shipping costs and large quantity orders please contact Duncan Forbes here. The poems in the collection explore a wide range of themes, forms, freedoms and responsibilities and their moods vary from entertainingly light verses to seriously questing meditations in search of enlightenment, giving new voice to fresh visions. He… Continue Reading

Voice Mail

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2002 (reprinted 2004) BUY THE BOOK For international shipping costs and large quantity orders please contact Duncan Forbes here. ‘a poet of real if unflashy accomplishment, whose work deserves to be better known.’ – Vernon Scannell in the Sunday Telegraph ‘While dipping in to these voices offers rewards, the cumulative effect of reading from the… Continue Reading

Taking Liberties

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1993 Out of print Try Abe Books for titles out of print ‘The range of [his] intelligence is formidable, yet never self-regarding except in a mildly deprecatory manner. Formal elegance is the least of it, for lucid precision finds ways to combine sensual appreciation with argument … the ability to pack intensity into a short… Continue Reading

Public and Confidential

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1989 Out of print Try Abe Books for titles out of print ‘Duncan Forbes has a good sense of reality, and of what Thomas Hardy called “life’s little ironies”. He does well with the short formal poem, often with a sting in the tail. Good lines are common: ‘All stones look semi-precious on the beach’,… Continue Reading

August Autumn

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1984 Out of print Try Abe Books for any of the books which are out of print. ‘Duncan Forbes’s poems were noticed by various reviewers of Faber’s Poetry Introduction 5. The grace, wit, intelligence and touching sentiment of that earlier selection can now be seen augmented and expanded in this first full-length book. August Autumn… Continue Reading

Anthologies

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Poems by Duncan Forbes have appeared in the following anthologies: New Poetry 4 and 5 The Penguin Book of Light Verse edited by Gavin Ewart (1980) The Faber Book of Blue Verse (1990) The Faber Book of Movie Verse (1993) Forward Book of Poetry (1993) Poem for the Day (1994) Scanning the Century: The Penguin… Continue Reading

The Vanishing

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Edited by Shae Spreafico (Elsinore Books 2017) Continue Reading