https://stephenkirkdaniels.com Poetry Thu, 30 Aug 2018 20:39:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ https://stephenkirkdaniels.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/cropped-stephen-daniels.jpg?w=32 https://stephenkirkdaniels.com 32 32 /2018/06/08/out-of-place-by-stephen-daniels/ /2018/06/08/out-of-place-by-stephen-daniels/#respond Fri, 08 Jun 2018 17:37:54 +0000 http://stephenkirkdaniels.com/2018/06/08/out-of-place-by-stephen-daniels/ Lonesome October Lit:
The home was ruptured, a double-glazed window invitation, with net curtain sight. Blood became décor with scrapings of skin, hung loosely on doors, sideboards, walls. The apology, pathetic disturbance, pleaded me to look further. The first room was filled with lampshade movements that betrayed my back and forth mind…]]> /2018/06/08/out-of-place-by-stephen-daniels/feed/ 0 Featured Image -- 1002 stephenkirkdaniels /2018/04/17/routine-excuses-by-stephen-daniels/ /2018/04/17/routine-excuses-by-stephen-daniels/#respond Tue, 17 Apr 2018 16:13:14 +0000 http://stephenkirkdaniels.com/2018/04/17/routine-excuses-by-stephen-daniels/ I am not a silent poet:
‘The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things’ – Ernest Dimnet But I didn’t break today. I wanted to break around 11am. But I needed to finish that report. I thought…]]> /2018/04/17/routine-excuses-by-stephen-daniels/feed/ 0 stephenkirkdaniels /2018/04/13/i-used-to-think-if-i-ate-an-apple-core-a-tree-would-grow-in-my-belly-stephen-daniels/ /2018/04/13/i-used-to-think-if-i-ate-an-apple-core-a-tree-would-grow-in-my-belly-stephen-daniels/#respond Fri, 13 Apr 2018 08:53:31 +0000 http://stephenkirkdaniels.com/2018/04/13/i-used-to-think-if-i-ate-an-apple-core-a-tree-would-grow-in-my-belly-stephen-daniels/ /2018/04/13/i-used-to-think-if-i-ate-an-apple-core-a-tree-would-grow-in-my-belly-stephen-daniels/feed/ 0 stephenkirkdaniels /2018/02/14/happy-valentines-day-my-new-poem-on-ink-sweat-and-tears/ /2018/02/14/happy-valentines-day-my-new-poem-on-ink-sweat-and-tears/#comments Wed, 14 Feb 2018 09:39:05 +0000 http://stephenkirkdaniels.com/?p=989 /2018/02/14/happy-valentines-day-my-new-poem-on-ink-sweat-and-tears/feed/ 1 stephenkirkdaniels /2017/12/02/issue-4/ /2017/12/02/issue-4/#respond Sat, 02 Dec 2017 08:36:05 +0000 http://stephenkirkdaniels.com/2017/12/02/issue-4/ Riggwelter:
https://issuu.com/riggwelter/docs/issue_4 Welcome to the fourth issue! Riggwelter keeps rolling on. This issue contains poetry, short fiction, visual art and experimental media by: David Bankson, Cath Barton, James Coffey, Lori Cramer, Stephen Daniels, Rachel Davies, Harshal Desai, Logan Ellis, Shannon Frost Greenstein, Erik Fuhrer, Elizabeth Gibson, Steve Harrison, Justin Karcher, Hailey Lamb, Sarah…]]> /2017/12/02/issue-4/feed/ 0 Featured Image -- 978 stephenkirkdaniels /2017/11/22/my-8-favourite-small-press-poetry-books-of-2017-happy-small-press-week-spweek17/ /2017/11/22/my-8-favourite-small-press-poetry-books-of-2017-happy-small-press-week-spweek17/#comments Wed, 22 Nov 2017 17:16:36 +0000 http://stephenkirkdaniels.com/?p=949 /2017/11/22/my-8-favourite-small-press-poetry-books-of-2017-happy-small-press-week-spweek17/feed/ 2 top 8 small press books 2017 stephenkirkdaniels /2017/10/10/tell-mistakes-i-love-them-stephen-daniels-new-pamphlet/ /2017/10/10/tell-mistakes-i-love-them-stephen-daniels-new-pamphlet/#respond Tue, 10 Oct 2017 08:11:04 +0000 http://stephenkirkdaniels.com/2017/10/10/tell-mistakes-i-love-them-stephen-daniels-new-pamphlet/ The Poetry Shed:
? Really pleased to be mentioning Stephen Daniels’ new pamphlet on The Poetry Shed. It is from the fabulous V. Press and is causing a bit of a stir – fabulous endorsements and there’s a review from Ben Banyard here. V. Press is a small independent press set up…]]> /2017/10/10/tell-mistakes-i-love-them-stephen-daniels-new-pamphlet/feed/ 0 stephenkirkdaniels /2017/06/10/signpost-twelve-wordslast-by-stephen-daniels/ /2017/06/10/signpost-twelve-wordslast-by-stephen-daniels/#respond Sat, 10 Jun 2017 10:27:28 +0000 http://stephenkirkdaniels.com/2017/06/10/signpost-twelve-wordslast-by-stephen-daniels/ My Signpost Poems:
? Reproduced here by kind permission of the poet, is the extraordinary poem, ‘Wordslast’. Have a good look at it and don’t worry if you don’t immediately ‘get’ it. The joy of this poem is that it creeps up on you, opening doors in your mind until it becomes…]]> /2017/06/10/signpost-twelve-wordslast-by-stephen-daniels/feed/ 0 Featured Image -- 927 stephenkirkdaniels /2017/06/09/rehabilitation-week-6-stephen-daniels/ /2017/06/09/rehabilitation-week-6-stephen-daniels/#respond Fri, 09 Jun 2017 09:55:10 +0000 http://stephenkirkdaniels.com/2017/06/09/rehabilitation-week-6-stephen-daniels/ /2017/06/09/rehabilitation-week-6-stephen-daniels/feed/ 0 stephenkirkdaniels /2017/06/02/tell-mistakes-i-love-them-stephen-daniels-v-press/ /2017/06/02/tell-mistakes-i-love-them-stephen-daniels-v-press/#respond Fri, 02 Jun 2017 13:30:18 +0000 http://stephenkirkdaniels.com/2017/06/02/tell-mistakes-i-love-them-stephen-daniels-v-press/ Ben Banyard:
I’ve enjoyed reading Stephen Daniels’ poems whenever they’ve popped up in magazines and on websites, including a couple that I published on Clear Poetry, so I was delighted to hear that he’d teamed up with the excellent V. Poetry to publish this, his debut pamphlet. Tell Mistakes I Love Them…]]> /2017/06/02/tell-mistakes-i-love-them-stephen-daniels-v-press/feed/ 0 Featured Image -- 920 stephenkirkdaniels