Poetry
The Water Steps
A full-length collection of poems ranging from the personal and lyrical to the public and political.
“There is a kindness in William Palmer’s poems: a generosity of perception, language and melody (read him aloud), but he is also generous in his poems’ precision and economy. William Palmer’s poetry never excludes readers, but it does challenge them at the same time as it charms them. He is one of our most interesting poets, and his work is a complete delight.”
David Morley
“Not quite a formalist, Palmer seems the kind of poet who carries a traditional sense of cadence in his head, while being able make the lines sing in modern, unpretentious, and not too rigidly metrical lines. The Water Steps represents a mature and impressive achievement.”
Carol Rumens, Guardian
Can be ordered direct from the Rack Press site, rackpress.blogspot.com
An Instruction from Madame S.
A pamphlet collection of poems of place: how we change the rooms and landscapes in which we live, and how we are changed by them, whether our home is an anonymous hotel in a foreign city, or an imagined wilderness.
Can be ordered direct from the Rack Press site, rackpress.blogspot.com
The Paradise Commissionaire
“These shapely, profound poems…it is hard not to love a poetry whose rhythms seem to finger the pulse of the world outside and the beat of its time.
Alison Brackenbury, PN Review
Can be ordered direct from the Rack Press site rackpress.blogspot.com.
The Island Rescue
The Island Rescue was awarded the First Collection Prize at the annual Listowel Writers’ Week Festival in 2006.
“A fine book of fine poetry”
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