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About John Fuller

John Fuller is a poet, novelist and critic (‘A significant presence in British letters’: The Times). He has published 25 books of poetry, the latest of which are Gravel in my Shoe (Chatto and Windus, 2015), A Week in Bern (Clutag, 2015) and The Bone FlowersChatto, 2016) The first of his seven novels, Flying to Nowhere (1983) won a Whitbread Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He has worked with the composer Nicola LeFanu (including the opera Dream Hunter in 2012, and The Crimson Bird in 2017) and with the photographer David Hurn (Writing the Picture, Seren Books, 2010). He is the author of W. H. Auden: a commentary (Faber, 1998) and has published several collections of short stories, anthologies, edited texts, and books for children. Between 1968 and 1993 he ran a private press: John Fuller and the Sycamore Press: a bibliographic history by Ryan Roberts was published by the Bodleian Library in 2010. He is an Emeritus Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, where for many years he was Tutor in English.

Painted Poetry and Painterly Poetics, an ekphrastic notion part 3: Palimpsest

Joost de Jonge and John Fuller

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Now Now is not past, but will be soon, With everything that is to come Under the stars and the white moon. An argued choice we make at noon By midnight sees us drained and dumb. Now is not … [Read more...]

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Empty Mirror

Established in 2000 and edited by Denise Enck, Empty Mirror is an online literary magazine that publishes new work each Friday.

Each week EM features several poems each by one or two poets; reviews; critical essays; visual art; and personal essays.

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