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29 Sep23

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Ink Sweat & Tears

 

and in the shop…
co-editor & a main contributor to anthology –
“Hans Sahl in Translation”,
Independent Publishing Network;
 
pamphlet collections –
“Ornaments”,
Paekakariki Press;
 
“Over the Road”,
Dempsey & Windle;
 
“Sleepless Nights”,
Maverick Mustang Manuscripts;
 
 
fantasy volume –
“The Voice of Heaven: Ulbic Stories of Wise Men and Heroes”
 
Poetry ID anthologies,
latest –
“Beyond the Walls”,
“After Orwell”,
“Coming into Leaf”

 

 

Dennis Tomlinson grew up in Hertfordshire, where the Poetry ID group encouraged him to write after joining in 2006. He moved to London in 2013 and found his feet in the Barnes and Chiswick Stanza of the Poetry Society. He has had many poems published in small magazines including Lunar Poetry, Blithe Spirit and Time Haiku, on the websites Ink, Sweat and Tears, Shot Glass Journal and London Grip, also in two of Ruth O’Callaghan’s Genius Floored anthologies and collections from Dempsey & Windle, the Ver Poets and Poetry ID.
 
Some of his translations from German poets have appeared in Modern Poetry in Translation, The Wolf and Acumen, and book reviews in Tears in the Fence.
 
His first poetry pamphlet, Sleepless Nights, was published by Maverick Mustang Manuscripts in 2019. This was followed in 2021 by a second pamphlet, Over the Road (Dempsey & Windle). His third collection is Ornaments (Paekakariki Press, 2022). He also acted as co-editor of Hans Sahl in Translation (Independent Publishing Network, 2023) and was one of the main contributors to this volume.
 
He completed a PhD in German at the University of Bath in 1993. He worked as a translator and a postman but is now a full-time carer.