Poet Selwyn Pritchard

Poets don't set out to lie, and now is the time for truth. (I think that old avant-garde was really an arrière-garde, withdrawing into reactionary esotericism in the face of the advance of literacy). I want poems which don't distance themselves, hold aloof, poems about living against the background of collapsing democracy, religion, social life and the corporate greed which is ruining our world...Poems that matter! I try to write them if I can.

Selwyn suffered a cardiac arrest at home on the evening of June 26 2005. He was pronounced dead on June 30 and is sorely missed by his family. His last week was spent with his wife, his daughter and both his sons. He completed a collection of poetry, Autumn Tiger, shortly before his death. It is available to download here.

There is also an interview with Selwyn on www.poetrykit.org.