‘Can never be forgotten’ | The Care Vortex, by Sam Smith
Now and then a book comes along that can never be forgotten, a book whose characters touch you deeply and remain in your memory. A story that shocks you into thinking about something you had never considered or completely changing your previous perceptions.The Care Vortex by Sam Smith is such a book…. The Care Vortex […]
‘Magical meaning’ | ‘Rooms’, by Patricia Welles | Review Poem of Sam Smith’s Rooms
It’s always nice when we receive reviews of an author’s work. Imagine our surprise when we received a poem about Sam Smith’s own poetry collection, Rooms. Well, here it is…! ‘Rooms’ by Patricia Welles i read Sam Smith’s ROOMSthe poetry hugging me tightly a boa constrictor’s coili wanted to know his secret messagesthe magical meaning […]
Q and A with Sam Smith – Author Interview
Sam Smith is an author, poet and editor-proofreader, based in Wales. He has written many books, and his poetry collections include Rooms and Problems and Polemics. When did you realise you wanted to become an author? Way back in the sixties when I was living in London, but I actually decided to take the plunge […]
Identity in Mental Health by Sam Smith
Identity is often based on no more than self-image, and self-image on what we think we’d like to be like, a compound of made-up mirror image, family likenesses and fantasy film roles. In this respect the young are often so deluded. It was once my task to give work-experience schoolchildren guided tours around the old […]
Poetry Types: Forms of Poetry by Sam Smith
What is an editor to do? Poetry is in a state of flux, is at a similar stage to that of early cubism — clumsy, ugly, monochrome structures built on theory…. no song, no beauty, too reliant on the appreciation of a partisan cognoscenti…. And that’s just those few attempting the new. Other poets labour […]
The Poetry Library of Wales. Not. by Sam Smith
Where is the Poetry Library of Wales?This was a question I asked on Radio Cardiff last year. Answer at the moment has to be – nowhere. Wales, home of the Eisteddfod bards, does not have its own poetry library. England has its own Poetry Library – on London’s South bank. For hands-on research it’s open […]
