Folklore

Folklore is an ecstatic, dreamlike, and starkly realist poem sequence which extends, challenges, and continues the tradition of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, John Clare's visionary lyrics, the elegiac minimalism of AE Houseman, contemporary work of Geoffrey Hill, and linguistic innovation of Gertrude Stein and the language poets.

Tim Atkins is the author of Folklore 1-25, To Repel Ghosts, 25 Sonnets, and Horace. Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at UEL, editor of the online poetry magazine onedit, and translator of Petrarch, Horace, and Buddhist texts, he is a Buddhist, husband, poet, and father. He is a happy man.