poems by Philebus, Edmund John, Cuthbert Wright. The Uranian poets flourished from the 1890s to the 1930s, expressing in their verse the 'love that dare not speak its name'. Their particular muse was youth, who might be rough-handed apprentice or uniformed schoolboy; and they hymned his charms with a sensitivity that won acceptance in the most mainstream literary circles.
poems by John Gambril Nicholson. John Gambril Nicholson's Uranian poetry may sound overtly camp to late 20th Century ears. But even his purplest of purple prose does capture the feel of a sexuality rarely expressed and socially scorned; the love of men for boys. His poetry is perhaps the most moving of all the Uranian poets that flourished around the turn of the century.
By Jeremy Reed. Includes a free CD of Soho Songs by Marc Almond. Piccadilly Bongo finds Jeremy Reed at his most imaginatively brilliant, writing about his particular London milieu, and most often Soho. The collection, fuelled by breathtaking imagery, is complemented by a CD of Soho Songs from the pop legend and Britain’s leading torch singer Marc Almond, as a unique collaboration expressive of deeply-felt, evocative Piccadilly associations. The creative sympathies shared by the two artists is not only a first for poetry, but a powerfully original fusion of energies focused on the Piccadilly ethos of Johnny Go Home.
poems by Mark Almond. The versatile and unique talent of Marc Almond is never better exemplified than in this collection of verse and poetry. I doubt very much that many of the public would appreciate his poetry to the full, regarding him as an eccentric singer and performer rather than a poet; but the selection presented here offers a representative range of his work in all its varied moods. The wry, even sick sense of the absurd through to the sense of enchanted stasis and onwards, reveals a personal complexity that remains intellectually rigorous.
