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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 and strong when to commit sin' - here is the fitting end to a trilogy unmatched for bold self-analysis, yearning for salvation, and poetic exuberance.

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 work, or indeed, face anything much more stressful than an episode of Gardener's Question Time...

Opening Hours is the sequel to Todd Swift's 2020 collection Spring In Name Only. The past year has been a time to think of the other, the self, the deadly baton, gun and contagion, the fragile, the toxic - what ends, what endures - the scientific, the mysterious, the numinous, the luminous, death, love, books, friends, brothers, mothers, others, masks, TV, music, food, sleep, walks, cats, fear, hope, and the environment, and how the seasonsare...

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 across religion, marital love, sexual desire, mental health, Maida Vale, and the vexing issue of poetry itself, the collection sustains, over long sequences and brief lyrics, a restless sense of achievement.

Poetry. DREAM-BEAUTY-PSYCHO is 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 Swift as one of the auteurs of contemporary English poetry. His 33-year-oeuvre is now, more than anything, its own cinematic universe of replicated tropes, fetishes, words and allusions. This could be a psychobiography dre...

Poetry. 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 Covid-19, these are lyric modern poems that take their bearings from both Auden and Empson, F.T. Prince and Dylan Thomas--as such, they seek to explore the '40s style of heightened rhetoric, emotion and personal myth Swift has elsewhere celebrated, as in his edition ...

In this work, Todd Swift pursues his exploration of how art, fantasy, and desire can console, or inflame, the heart - andhow, against the vastly more powerful claims of reality, the imagination can do no more than offer its impulsive, fragileand poignant gifts. Love and lust, fear and trust, hope and despair are tangled.

As performer, writer, impresario and editor, (of the significant anthologies Map-Makers' Colours: New Poets of Northern Ireland and Poetry Nation: The North American Anthology of Fusion Poets), Todd Swift has defined a new kind of cosmopolitan panache for the idea of the poet as key figure at the end start of a new millennium.

This anthology includes daring and often thrilling new writing from some of the 21st century's best prose and poetry writers, such as: David Wevill, Sina Queyras, Raymond Hsu, Robert Minhinnick, Annie Freud, Bill Bissett, Patrick Chapman, Meredith Quartermain, Jason Camlot, Liane Strauss, Todd Colby, Jennifer K Dick, John Hartley Williams, Louise Bak, Hal Sirowitz, Adeena Karasick, Mike Marqusee, Kavita Joshi, Stan Rogal, Tammy Armstrong, Rich...

Todd Swift's fourth collection, "Winter Tennis" is a passionate appraisal of life by the poet at age forty. By turns elegantly sad and radically witty, the poems move between the wintry wilds of loss and the sun-splashed courts of word play and of language acts keenly observed. Also examined are the facts of our quickly eroding identities-life, love, and death. A series of powerful poems commemorates the poet's companionable father. Others viv...

Todd Swift is one of Canada's leading younger expatriate writers. Elegant, moving, and masterful, Rue du Regard forms the final part of a trilogy, following the acclaimed Budavox and Café Alibi. Written in Paris and London between 2001 and 2004, Rue du Regard crosses the channel between these two great cities and between two kinds of poetry: experimental and mainstream. The book deals with looking: in, out, back, and ahead. In almost whiplash ...

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Todd Swift is one of the leading Canadian poets and poetry activists of his generation. His critical study of Anglo-Quebec poetry, Language Acts, co-edited with Jason Camlot, was a finalist for the 2007 Gabrielle Roy Prize. He has had four previous collections of poems published in Montreal. He lives in London, England, with his wife, where he works as a lecturer in creative writing, editor, and writer. Seaway gathers together 80 poems and is ...