ROBERT SELBY
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  • Nimrod Journal - 'II', 'VI' and 'VIII' from 'Among the Ruins'
  • The Nightwatchman - 'Indoor School' 
  • The Spectator - from 'Maydown Road'
  • Contraflow: Lines of Englishness 1922-2022 (Renard Press) - 'X' from 'Chevening'
  • Scintilla - 'Part 2, VIII' from The Kentish Rebellion
  • Bad Lilies - 'Part 1, IX' from The Kentish Rebellion
  • Literary Matters - 'Part 1, V' from The Kentish Rebellion
  • Times Literary Supplement - 'On the Lord General Fairfax's Coat at Leeds Castle, Maidstone' from The Kentish Rebellion
  • Poetry London - 'Part 1, IV' from The Kentish Rebellion
  • Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal - 'Liberty Men'
  • The Spectator - '3rd September 1939'
  • Hollow Palaces: An Anthology of Modern Country House Poems (LUP) - 'St Botolph's' ('VI' from 'Chevening')
  • Caught by the River - 'Platalea leucorodia'
  • London Review Bookshop's Poem of the Week: 'The Big Guns'
  • Caught by the River - 'The Daylight'
  • Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal - 'Saturday Morning Football'
  • Agenda - 'XI' from 'Chevening' and 'The World is Full of Paper. Write to Me'
  • The Spectator - '10 Squadron'
  • The High Window - 'Visiting Day', 'We May Allow Ourselves a Brief Period of Rejoicing', 'Hellfire Corner' and 'The Peace that Passes Human Understanding'
  • Ambit - 'Kentish Hymn'
  • Smoke Magazine - 'I' and 'II' from 'Chevening'
  • Agenda - 'XII' from 'Chevening' and 'Inscription'
  • The Manhattan Review - 'An Aurelian Watches His Wife'
  • Ambit at 60 - 'The Firecrests'
  • Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal - 'III' from Chevening
  • PN Review - 'The End of the Horse Age', 'The Divide', 'An Idle Wind' and '23.02.1990'
  • The Spectator - 'Whitstable Cathedral'
  • Ambit - 'Upon the Altar Laid'
  • Areté - 'Orford'
  • The Spectator - 'When That Which is Perfect is Come'
  • Ambit - 'The Daylight'
  • Caught by the River - 'The Firecrests'
  • Caught by the River - 'Shadows on the Barley'
  • Structo - 'Burning the Clocks' and 'Wild Cherry'
  • The Spectator - 'The Big Guns'
  • The London Magazine - 'X' from 'Chevening'
  • The London Magazine - 'Home from Greece'
  • Oxford Poetry - 'Scotland 12 Ireland 8'
  • The Next Review - 'The Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders'
  • Tennyson Research Bulletin - 'Matilda Tennyson Recalls Encountering Arthur Hallam's Ghost'
  • Ambit - 'In God's Prevenient Grace', 'Elysium, 'Tournai' and 'Wilf'
  • Ambit - 'The Firecrests' and 'Exterior with a Young Woman Upset'
  • New Statesman - 'Your Bright Jays'
  • Days of Roses II - 'The Galilean Moons',  'Dear Ralph Crozier', 'After the Solstice Party' and 'Katie'
  • The Dark Horse - 'Splendour'
  • Days of Roses I - 'Shadows on the Barley' and 'The Winter Wood'
  • Guardian - 'Balfour'
  • Times Literary Supplement - 'The Baptism of the Bull' (shortlisted for the TLS Poetry Competition)
  • Times Literary Supplement - 'The Winter Wood'
  • Times Literary Supplement - 'The Sycamore'
  • Times Literary Supplement - 'Brunswick, Maine'
  • Times Literary Supplement - 'Lady Thatcher'


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  • About
  • The Coming-Down Time
  • The Kentish Rebellion
  • Poems
  • Essays / Reviews
  • Audio / Visual