by Julian Bishop | Dec 14, 2021 | Blog |
I’m so pleased to be working with Fly On The Wall Press on my first book of eco-poetry called We Saw It All Happen which will be published in January 2023. I’ve spent the last five years writing responses to the climate crisis and am looking forward to...
by Julian Bishop | Dec 5, 2021 | Poetry, Uncategorized |
Little Whirlpool Ramshorn Snail was chosen by editors Cheryl Moskowitz, Maya Chowdhry and Yvonne Reddick to be one of the poems in the Anthropocene issue of Magma. The magazine also includes work by the likes of Joy Harjo, Dom Bury and Isabel Galleymore so I feel very...
by Julian Bishop | Oct 7, 2021 | Poetry |
The Mechanics of Killing a Man Julian Bishop (after Caravaggio’s Beheading of St John) Choose your saint or sinner, a Holofernes or John, it doesn’t have to be a cephalophore stuttering like Patroclus or Paul. Maybe one you’ve soaked in oils before, loins draped in...
by Julian Bishop | Sep 27, 2021 | Uncategorized |
Julian Bishop: “Changeling” Pyres Collection 1 my nature changed my moods monsooned I cast spells of rain wept ice melt swept by tropical depressions my skin fracked organs fragmented my hives left starved spring brought a new start each one sooner than the last by...
by Julian Bishop | Apr 10, 2021 | Uncategorized |
Sitting For Caravaggio Ground floor of the Palazzo Madama – I walk into the blasphemous dark, black as a Vatican bible. The air hangs heavy with myrrh, hint of dead flesh. He wants an assistente – a boy to prime canvas, grind his earths and ochres....
