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Meet the Poems: What is Your Angle?
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Andrew Jamison
Jul 41 min read


Behind the Scenes: How I Wrote 'Stay' (VIDEO)
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Andrew Jamison
Dec 11, 20251 min read


Behind the Scenes: How I Wrote 'Happy Hour' (Video)
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Andrew Jamison
Nov 25, 20251 min read


Meet the Poems: 'Listening to Ash' from Happy Hour, 2012
Explore the context and get a behind-the-scenes glimpse of how Andrew wrote some of his most popular poems. Hear Andrew read the poem and introduce it here . Background This poem is taken from my first collection, Happy Hour, published in 2012 by Gallery Press . I don’t make a habit of going back over my books and reading my poems closely, but this Meet the Poems thread on my blog is really a way of giving you, dear reader, a bit of an insight, in the unlikely event that you
Andrew Jamison
Oct 15, 20254 min read


Video: Reading of 'Listening to Ash'
Hear Andrew read 'Listening to Ash' from his debut collection Happy Hour (Gallery Press, 2012). You can buy signed, first editions of Happy Hour here:
Andrew Jamison
Oct 8, 20251 min read


Video: Reading of 'The Party'
This poem is taken from Andrew's second collection Stay, which you can buy signed, first editions of below:
Andrew Jamison
Sep 10, 20251 min read


Video: Meet the Poems 'All the Pretty Horses'
In this video Andrew reads and talks about a poem from his second collection, Stay. You can buy a signed, first edition of Stay here:
Andrew Jamison
Aug 20, 20251 min read


Meet the Poems: All the Pretty Horses
In this series, Meet the Poems, Andrew takes you through how he wrote some of his most popular poems. This is a poem inspired by Cormac...
Andrew Jamison
Aug 19, 20254 min read


Video: Reading of 'The Starlings'
A video to accompany the post 'Meet the Poems: The Starlings' You can buy a signed, first edition of Andrew's first collection, published by The Gallery Press in 2012, here:
Andrew Jamison
Aug 7, 20251 min read


Meet the Poems: The Starlings
Published in Happy Hour (Gallery Press, 2012), here Andrew reflects on how and why he wrote this poem. The Starlings Everything,...
Andrew Jamison
Aug 7, 20253 min read


Meet the Poems: Pet Sounds
I was saddened to hear of the death of Brian Wilson yesterday. I've always loved The Beach Boys, and I think Pet Sounds is a wonder. I...
Andrew Jamison
Jun 12, 20251 min read


Meet the Poems: Killyleagh Road at Night in Snow
I don't write often about snow (probably because it rarely snows), however this is one taken from my first collection, and as I sit here and write I can see snow gathering on the patio, so I thought I'd share this one. It's a version of a a Pablo Neruda poem, and, I might add, a very loose version. I think it's fair to say that Pablo Neruda never visited the Killyleagh Road (a shame as he might have enjoyed the landscape) and to be honest I can't remember for the life of me w
Andrew Jamison
Jan 5, 20251 min read
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