Cliff Forshaw
Cliff Forshaw is a poet and painter whose work engages with themes of place, nature, history and myth, and often features creative translation with ‘cover versions’ playing variations on various...
The Writer And Nature
To see the world afresh we ‘make it strange’. It is also a way of creeping close to realities and fears we have difficulty talking about.
How I Write
This impetus to make Ovid ‘new’ resulted in various narratives of bodily modification, from sex changes to the extreme body artist Orlan
Why I Write
Poetry provides some unique satisfactions; the epigrammatic click of a word locking a couplet, the exact phrase that nails a sound, texture, colour or movement.
Ut Pictura Poesis
...proportion: in other words, form. Whether the line is visual or verbal, form echoes content and vice versa: ut pictura poesis. Cliff Forshaw’s poetry collections include Vandemonian (Arc, 2013), Pilgrim...
Reversifying Rimbaud
...life, including the renunciation of poetry, has come full circle, back to rhymes and metre. Cliff Forshaw’s poetry collections include Vandemonian (Arc, 2013), Pilgrim Tongues (Wrecking Ball, 2015) and Satyr...