This is the webpage of Clive Gresswell a new poet to the erbacce-family. Strings is a 32 page chapbook and you can purchase a copy using the 'Buy Now' PayPal link or direct from the poet by clicking on the cover to contact him by email... if you'd like a signed copy Clive will be happy to oblige...
Clive is a 63-year-old innovative writer and poet. He has a poetry MA and a BA First Class in Creative Writing both from the University of Bedfordshire where he studied as a mature student. For 30-plus years before that he worked as a newspaper journalist and if you'd like to read a brief interview with him to see what makes him tick, click HERE.
He has written poetry on and off for as long as he can remember and most recently has been published in BlazeVox, Poetry Wars, Tears In The Fence, aglimpseof.net, The View From Here, Marble Poetry, Dead Snakes Poetry, MaCormick’s Dead Typewriter, Clod Magazine and many others. He has two other poetry collections both with Knives, Forks and Spoons Press, Jargon Busters and Rages Of The Carbolic.
Clive is married with two grown children and lives in Bedfordshire. You can read a recent review of 'Strings' HERE and you can visit his blog HERE and you can also access an extract from a long poem; Shadow Reels, HERE. His very latest site is now available (July 2022) HERE.
Also, Clive is being mentioned in some exceptional company as this extract from a review in The London Magazine (Ian Brinton Oct/Nov 2021 issue page123) shows:
‘That urgency of need, the writhing within the nets of being, is as actively alive today as it was in the 13th Century. One might well be prompted to read a recent set of prose poems by Clive Gresswell (Strings, erbacce-press 2021) to be confronted by an unnamed figure who ’walked on doubled with the pain of it his rattling cry…the delicious misdoings the folly of dealing himself with other people’s darkness.’
The Voices of The Damned Review of Purgatrio Dante Alighieri (trans. D. M. Black)
Clive Gresswell & Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti eh? Good company to be in!
AND... Clive now has yet another stream-of-consciousness-type long poem available, again as a chapbook... Atoms is also available direct from the poet (hence signed copies can be requested) with again just a small addition to assist with p/p. Just hit the Buy Now button ABOVE the cover or click on the cover to email the poet direct if you'd like a signed copy or if you have any questions...
PLUS if you wish to read the latest stunning review of this book click HERE.
Also; as of August 2022 Clive has a brand new 28pp chapbook with erbacce-press; SPACES... see below and be sure to read the rear-cover blurbs ...as usual there is a PayPal link via the Buy Now button... AND; yet ANOTHER totally brilliant review of this new chap-book from Tears in the Fence HERE.
SAD NEWS
As some of you will know Clive passed away on June 21st 2024, he was just 66, quite young these days and much too soon. A great shock to us all here at erbacce; we had hoped for great things from him and a continued relationship. Our thoughts are with his family and friends especially his wife and children... sadly sadly missed... his books below however will remain available; Clicking on the buy now buttons or the covers will make contact with Clive's wife...
