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Stephen Payne

Stephen Payne is Professor Emeritus at the University of Bath, where until September 2020 he taught and conducted research in Cognitive Science. He lives in Penarth in the Vale of Glamorgan. His first full-length poetry collection, Pattern Beyond Chance, was published by HappenStance Press in 2015 and shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year. His second collection, The Windmill Proof (September 2021), and a pamphlet The Wax Argument & Other Thought Experiments (February 2022) were published by the same press.

    Avid alt text readers will notice that sometimes I am at a loss to pull meaning from a bewildering array of abstract book covers, this one is more figurative in nature, though not entirely clear. It appears to be painting of a crystal fruit bowl with what looks like an explosion of silhouetted grapes ... or cherries ... fruit anyway ... or maybe berries.

    More life!

    Stephen Payne reviews Scenes from Life on Earth by Kathryn Simmonds (Salt, 2022)
    A drawing of a horses head, the head is looking at us and seems to be on the body of a woman wearing a blue coat. The background is cream and white.

    Bone white, star bright

    Stephen Payne reviews Feeling Unusual by Ann Drysdale (Shoestring Press, 2022)
    looks like a sculpture of a red haired woman with wings (angel or dragon?) holding on to the left arm of a male figure.

    I would make a language out of this

    Stephen Payne reviews Speechless at Inch by James Caruth (Smith|Doorstop, 2021)
    Photo of a meat market porter at work

    The page my barrow and my charge the word

    Book Review: Stephen Payne reviews The Resurrectionists by John Challis (Bloodaxe, 2021)
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