Norman Jope

Dreams of the Caucasus is Norman Jope's sixth full-length collection and his second from Shearsman, after Dreams of the Caucasus (2010). Two collections have appeared from Waterloo Press, The Book of Bells and Candles (2009) and Aphinar (2012), and one from Stride, For the Wedding-Guest (1997); he has also co-edited the anthology In the Presence of Sharks: New Poetry from Plymouth (Phlebas, 2006) and a Critical Companion to Richard Berengarten (Salt, 2011 and Shearsman, 2016). Born in Plymouth,...See more

Dreams of the Caucasus is Norman Jope's sixth full-length collection and his second from Shearsman, after Dreams of the Caucasus (2010). Two collections have appeared from Waterloo Press, The Book of Bells and Candles (2009) and Aphinar (2012), and one from Stride, For the Wedding-Guest (1997); he has also co-edited the anthology In the Presence of Sharks: New Poetry from Plymouth (Phlebas, 2006) and a Critical Companion to Richard Berengarten (Salt, 2011 and Shearsman, 2016). Born in Plymouth, he works as an administrator at Plymouth Marjon University and has co-organised Plymouth Language Club's long-running live poetry reading series since 2012 (having been involved with it since its inception in 2000) along with fellow Shearsman author Steve Spence. He has also made frequent visits to Budapest where his partner, the artist Lynda Stevens, lives and works; his most recent full-length collection, Golyak es retesek ('Storks and Strudels'), was published in Zoltan Tarscay's Hungarian translation by FISz-Apokrif in 2018. See less