BOOKS

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NEW WORK:  

FOUR WINDOWS ON THE MALE
by Veronica Aaronson, Steve Day, Roger Philip Dennis, Kerry Priest
 ISBN 978-0-9545479     Wylde Publications  2025
RRP £10 

“FOUR WINDOWS ON THE MALE is a striking collection by four very individual poets. It opens many different windows on attitudes and behaviours around maleness and explores them with a glorious thoroughness. The reader is constantly surprised and delighted by the freshness of their vision, their innovative ways of looking.
These poems are by turns devastating, playful, political, wry, angry, tender and everything else in between.
What is it to be male? These thought-provoking poems offer succinct visions or versions of the complex ideas around masculinity, and how toxic masculinity affects women and girls. They look at youth and age, family relationships, history, story, longing, grief.
They look both slant and straight on and in doing what all good poems do, they crack open their subject and make it sing.”
    Janet Sutherland, author of The Messanger House, and four other poetry collections (Shearsman Books.)

"I certainly feel educated and entertained by the two female and two male poets whose creativity we see through these four windows. I hope you have a similar experience."
   Andy Williamson, Arts Director, Ashburton Arts Centre

First solo collection:

BETWEEN NEW YEAR AND OLD
ISBN 978-0-9545474-4-8  Wylde Publications  2024
RRP £12.00 
First solo collection of poems by Roger. 61 poems, 97  pages.
Cover wrap-around design and photographs by Roger

Joint collaboration with Steve Day of paired poems:

INVOCATIONS AND PORTRAITS
ISBN 978-0-9545474-2-4  Wylde Publications January 2023. 
A collaboration with the musician, poet and  performer Steve Day, whom I had met only in the summer of 2022, but whose music (his featured instrument is the  drum kit) and poetry reading had not only impressed, but really "clicked" with me.
Paired poems, alternating throughout the book. 80 pages.
Six line illustrations by Roger.
Cover image features a sketch by Roger of a wooden carving that used to stand in Staverton Churchyard.
Cover design, front and back, by Roger.
RRP £10.00 

Anthology containing poems by Roger:

UNTAMED
ISBN 978-0-9545474-3-1  Wylde Publications April 2023
RRP £12.00
An anthology of South West poets and artists. Edited and content design by Steve Day. Text on each l.h.s. page, each poem paired with an art image r.h.s.  73 pages. Colour reproduction throughout (except of original black-&-white artwork.)
Two poems by Roger and three artworks.
Wrap-around cover design by Roger incorporating a painting by Ric White.
 RRP £12.00