[Sebastian Faught - Poems]

All poems © 1998 Maurice Dekker


So you think you like poetry? Well, I hope you're prepared for this!
    Every section contains about 9 or so poems, some have more, some have less, and the older sections are usually littered with commentaries on the poems, written in retrospect. Sometimes to give the poem a different angle, sometimes to distance myself from it, sometimes to award its good points, sometimes for a laugh, and sometimes not.
    If you only have to time to look at one single section, then take a look at either of the top ones, which are more or less an anthology of all the other sections.

Travelling Down to the Deprimerium is the selection of poems which I have sent off the various publishers recently. Basically constituting reworked versions of the other poems, this selection has also forgone the chronological order in favour of a thematical order. This baby is big (51Kb).

Poems From Beyond My Reach, an Antholgy is the selection of poems which I think represent me best at this point. Unlike on this page, the oldest poems are at the top in this selection, while the latest entries can be found at the bottom.

The Hedgehog That Almost Drowned is the most recent selection of poems taken from The Notebook.

Thoughts on Faith and Faltering is a transcription of poems and thoughts about failing and self-confidence taken from The Notebook.

In This Room is a series of daunting poems based on notes from The Notebook of 1998.

The Want of Perfection is a collection of poems about the personal desire to be perfect and the continuous lack of this perfection.

We are the Next Generation is a series of dauntless poems about youth, culture and 'the things' as they are.

Five Days Till Winter is a series of rich prose poems, disguised as letters.

Three Wishes for a Loser is a collection of older poems. Mostly, but not exclusively, love poems. 

Poems From Before My Time are poems from my stone age.

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