Welcome to my website!
My big work is the Book of Lowmoor, an epic fantasy in three parts. Volume 1, Jewel and Thorn, was published in February 2005 and is available in hardback and paperback. Volume 2, The Brass Key, was published in February 2006 and is now available in paperback. Volume 3, The Iron Angel, came out in hardback in February 2007 and in paperback a year later.
NEW: The Day I Found My Childhood Erased... Richard Poole discusses the link between his childhood and the landscape of The Book of Lowmoor.
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Younger readers - including watchers of the Nick Jr TV channel - should click on their own link. This leads to Teeny Tiny Creatures, animations of short, sharp poems.
My five books of poems are listed under the Poetry section. Each collection is represented by one poem and extracts from contemporary reviews.
The Criticism pages are divided into four subsections – Fiction, Poetry, Miscellany and Book Reviews – and are in a continual process of expansion. The Fiction section includes a substantial number of essays on the fiction of Richard Hughes and others on Philip Pullman, Thomas Harris, Vladimir Nabokov and Glyn Jones. The Poetry section includes essays on Shakespeare, Dylan Thomas, R. S. Thomas, George Barker, C. H. Sisson, Alun Lewis and Keith Douglas, John Ormond and Wallace Stevens, Idris Davies, Duncan Bush, John Davies and John Tripp.
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