Seán Body
PoetTHE JOURNEY
The new collection from Lapwing now available
Lapwing Publications
ISBN 978-1-910855-90-4
Price £10
A wide ranging collection, from the deeply personal
to the public – celebration, grief, war, disablement,
the marginalised and the dispossessed – from delight
at a longed for birth to the elegiac.
Other Books
SHOULDERING BACK THE DAY
Lapwing Publications
ISBN 978-1-909252-31-8
Price £10
Cultivates a powerful sense of presence…
composed of striking individual pieces and
sequences where the space between utterance
echoes with significance and possibility.
WITNESS
Revised and expanded edition
Lapwing Publications
ISBN 978-1-909252-29-5
Price £10
Pity and horror are there in these poems.
A superb command of language, total control.
Copies of these books are available direct from the author, post free.
To purchase, please email: seanbody@outlook.com.
Digital copies may be purchased from Lapwing Publications.
Poetry
from A PLACE OF TENTS
A Manchester Sequence
1. Migrant
he wakes to darkness
turmoil
slips out
with the breaking storm
lightning strobes nervous streets
disquiets, goes to ground
from THE JOURNEY
1. Child
the child dug holes, as if she believed
earth should be cratered
or reprising long distant ancestors
how they might have lived
DEEP RIVER
Deep river, my home is over Jordan.
Deep river Lord, I want to cross over…
No song more apt or less seeming:
your motif concealing as it reveals.
Tenor, baritone, bass, chanting it
over and over, irrepressible, comic.
A poet, editor and mentor
Seán Body’s poetry has won prizes in several competitions, including Ver Poets, Bridport (three years running) and Peterloo; and featured on Moving Manchester – Mediating Marginalities, Institute of Advanced Studies, Lancaster University.
He was Honorary Creative Writing Fellow in the School of English, University of Leicester (2011-2017).
Reviews
SHOULDERING BACK THE DAY
“Seán Body’s new collection of poems cultivates a powerful sense of presence and loss. It is composed of striking individual pieces and of sequences where the space between utterance echoes with significance and possibility. Read more“
by Graham Mort
“The only poet I know who has passed through Inferno and reached a tranquil world born of years of agony. Every word he writes, and not one out of place, is charged with the pain or joy of vivid memories and raw experience. Read more”
by Gavin Bantock
WITNESS
“Sean Body, editor of Tarantula Publications and also editor of the magazine Brando’s Hat, has written a wide ranging and sensitively tackled book, covering such topics as Auschwitz and Irish history. It is no surprise to learn he has won a short story competition. Read more“
by Mary Knight
“This is the latest collection from one of the most memorable of that wordy and worthy crew, The Manchester Poets. Seán Body has the gift of tackling the most delicate subjects with great insight, imagination and sensitivity. The book is divided into sections, the first of which, ‘Witness’, deals with international news events. Read more“
by Agraman
SEASONS
“Losing the ability to express yourself must be a poet’s greatest fear, so it’s unsurprising to find a series of poems which takes this as its prime subject matter. In Sean Body’s most recent work, Seasons, language defines identity and its loss makes the strong and self-assured feel insecure and adrift. Read more“
by Sarah Tierney
WITNESS – IAN PARKS ESSAY
“I’d like to begin with the notion of reticence as it seems to me that it is in many ways central to any discussion of Seán Body’s work. From the outset, however, the question of reticence raises an intriguing paradox as it’s always easier to talk about something that’s been said than to talk about something that hasn’t. Read more“
by Ian Parks
Get In Touch
For all queries and comments
relating to Seán Body’s poetry
Please Email:
seanbody@outlook.com
To purchase any of these books
Copies of Seán Body’s publications are available direct from the author post free
To purchase please email: seanbody@outlook.com
Digital copies may be purchased from Lapwing Publications