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Patrick B. Osada has been widely published in poetry magazines, anthologies and on the internet. His work has been broadcast on national and local radio. In 1996 his first collection, Close to the Edge, released by National Poetry Foundation Publications, ( ISBN 1-870556-99-2) won the Rosemary Arthur Award for best first collection and was nominated for the Forward Prize. His collection, Short Stories : Suburban Lives, (ISBN 1-904781-50-0), released in 2004 by Bluechrome has been well received : Patrick B. Osada’s second collection is the immensely confident work of a writer who combines accessibility with an enormous range of forms. Here’s a very English voice that falls as easily into assured rhythms and rhymes, as it does exploratory verse. (His is) an intrepid and important new English voice. Will Daunt, Envoi The late Leslie Norris, one of the greatest Welsh poets of the Twentieth Century, remarked: I’ve not read anything quite like these poems…a very contemporary demotic voice. Ronnie Goodyer, Editor, REACH, describes Short Stories : Suburban Lives as: …a sideways look at life,brilliantly expressed While Martin Holroyd, Editor of Poetry Monthly, claims that …the poems have grit and also the poet’s instinctive inner eye for the beauty of emotion. Writing in Black Mountain Review, Niall McGrath finds …carefully crafted poems…which tackle…contemporary issues and suburban myths with a keen intellect and conscience. In a book review for REACH, Gary Bills writes Osada is a fine social observer, (who) can be a very English poet. This is most evident in his command of flowing lyrical cadences. Since retiring from teaching and a period working for Social Services, Patrick has worked as an editor and reviewer of poetry. Bluechrome released Patrick’s third volume, Rough Music (ISBN 1-904781-48-9), in October 2006. Writing about the book, Bluechrome says : “Osada’s lyricism and social concern are again evident. In the Warfield Poems his poetry is lyrically bucolic. However, his pastoral themes are underpinned by a concern with loss and the potential ravaging of village and countryside by planners and property developers. Away from the countryside Osada populates his collection with a diverse range of characters – some famous, some iconic. He again demonstrates a lively concern with contemporary issues and attitudes, all reflected through a prism of compassion and wry humour.” More information about Patrick’s work can be found at his website :
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