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Todd Swift
In OPTICIAN TO THE STARS, the British-Canadian Todd Swift, one of the leading poet-editors of his generation, takes a look at life with and without rose-tinted specs, considering the sublunar…
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In this work, Todd Swift pursues his exploration of how art, fantasy, and desire can console, or inflame, the heart - and how, against the vastly more powerful claims of…
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These poems, at once freewheeling as song lyrics, but rigorously aware of the modern poets who spoke to the fraught decades of the 30s and 40s, take their bearings from…
Poetry. Edited by Todd Swift and Kelly Davio. The inaugural anthology of poems by fifty rising stars in the UK and Ireland, this volume gathers the work of the most…
Madness And Love In Maida Vale celebrates Todd Swift’s 50th birthday - and over 30 years of published poetry - in style, with new poems extending his striking range. Moving…
Todd Swift’s latest trip to the world of desire and retro style, sometimes Lynchian in scope. Rhetorically wild at heart, these onrushing poems of religion, marriage, sex and phantasy establish…
Taking its title from a line from a sermon from Lancelot Andrewes (once based at Pembroke, Cambridge) - 'we are all weak and crazy when we would repent, but lusty…
Spring In Name Only is Todd Swift’s first full collection since his 2014 ‘American Selected’ and marks the first with Black Spring Press. Responding to the age of Brexit and…
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An anthology that includes writings from some of the 21st century’s best prose and poetry writers.
Christmas 2021, Todd Swift was in ICU, close to death. His heart had failed. A selection of new and older poems, published as a fundraiser for Todd, who cannot currently…
Poetry. Religion & Sprituality. Edited by Todd Swift, Fr. Oliver Brennan, Kelly Davio and Cate Myddleton-Evans. This major anthology, the first of its kind, gathers work from renowned contemporary poets…
Poetry. Edited by Nick Makoha. An Anthology of the Best New British and Irish Poets of 2019-2020 as selected by Nick Makoha.
What did Swift believe? Was his career in the Church primarily a means of political and social advancement? Did Swift subscribe to a coherent theology, or were his beliefs simply…
A Handbook of Chaplaincy Studies explores fundamental issues and critical questions in chaplaincy, spanning key areas of health care, the prison service, education and military chaplaincy. Leading authors and practitioners…
