Clive Culverhouse

Biography

UK. Lincolnshire poet. Ex-paramedic now working in mental health. Clive's poem Another Day At The Office made the Long List of The Plough Prize for Poetry 2017. Also had poems published in poetry magazines such as Popshot Magazine. Clive has an interest in nature religion, of life, death and rebirth - the cycle of nature also the Eternal Return. Many of his poems challenge and twist reality and also feature a smatherlump of nonsense. Read more of his poems on PoemHunter and PoetrySoup. X (Twitter) @smatherlump

Influence

Leonard Cohen is my favourite poet and his work has influenced and inspired In honour of the legend, I say Leonard Cohen writes a poem better than any I’ve read you can keep your Blakes your Shelleys and Yeats I’d rather have Cohen instead Actually, Blake is up there, Leonard Cohen and Robert Graves are my favourites.

All poems are copyright of the originating author. Permission must be obtained before using or performing others' poems.

Blog entries by Clive Culverhouse

All Aboard The Animal Cruise (08/05/2025)

The Cut-Out-And-Keep Guide To Trees (07/05/2025)

Upstairing A Nightly Groan (04/11/2024)

A Dog And A Frog On A Spoon (20/10/2024)

A Fairly Scary Ghostly Host (19/10/2024)

Old Woodbeard (18/10/2024)

Perfection (12/10/2024)

The Haunting Scary Broogle (11/10/2024)

Something Oddly Familiar About This Nonsense (05/10/2024)

Lists (04/10/2024)

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Blog link: https://www.writeoutloud.net/blogs/cliveculverhouse