Patrick B. Osada is a poet and editor, he writes reviews of poetry for magazines and is a member of the Management Team for SOUTH Poetry Magazine.
 
His first collection, Close to the Edge, was published in 1996 & won the prestigious ROSEMARY ARTHUR AWARD. He has previously published four collections of poetry, his fifth, and most recent, is CHANGES (published by Dempsey & Windle January 2017).
 
Patrick’s work has been widely published in magazines, anthologies and on the internet.
 
For more information about his work and a selection of his poetry, visit: Patrick’s website.
 
What reviewers have said about Patrick Osada’s previous collections:
 
Short Stories: Suburban Lives:
 

An intrepid and important new English voice.

 

Will Daunt, Envoi

 
 

Rough Music:
 

This collection shows great strength of feeling and achievement … it has a substantial core of finely crafted poems which will stand the test of time.

 

James Roderick Burns, New Hope International Review

 
 

Osada is a poet able to work with emotion, a poet who can take small events and small places, observe them precisely and elucidate them with a deft touch to reveal our shared humanity and the moments of connection.

 

Jan Fortune-Wood, Coffee House Poetry

 
 

Choosing the Route:
 

Patrick Osada is a poet whose work has matured and settled wonderfully. His collection is wide-ranging in subject matter and every turn of the page brings new ideas and images that paint pictures in the mind…

 

Kevin Bailey, HQ Poetry Magazine

 
 

… And comments about Patrick’s new collection, CHANGES … Patrick’s fifth collection explores the impact of change on every aspect of our lives, from seasonal effects to those specific to people and places.
 

CHANGES is a rich, varied collection, whose three sections, while distinct in tone and theme, complement each other in satisfying and often unexpected ways. ‘Seasonal’ is characterised by Osada’s keen evocations of the natural world and celebration of seasonal variation. In ‘At a Time of Unrest’ the poet explores moments and places and their significance, embracing the darker sides of human experience with quiet yet compelling understatement. ‘Keepsake’ is more nostalgic and elegiac in tone and proves a fitting conclusion to this moving, memorable and, above all, deeply human collection of poems.

 

Jeremy Page, Editor, The Frogmore Papers

 
 

Patrick Osada has long been the master of traditional verse celebrating the natural world. Here he extends his range to the changing environment and, especially powerfully, his own family heritage.

 

David Ashbee, reviewer and poet

 
 

A beautiful book about emotional weather, recording the bleak music of winter, wind and rain, loneliness and loss.

 

Andy Croft, Smokestack Books