Description
Luke Samuel Yates lives in North-West England. He has published two pamphlets (The Rialto, Smith|Doorstop), was a Poetry Society Foyle Young Poet on four occasions, and was selected for the Aldeburgh Eight. A lecturer in Sociology, he also teaches and researches political movements, technology, and consumption practices.
https://lukesamuelyates.wordpress.com/
His deadpan humour and fragmentary, quick-fire writing in response to everyday events at times recalls Frank O’Hara.
– Mary Mulholland, The Alchemy SpoonÂ
He can make the ordinariness of everyday existence gleam without being flashy… These are highly quotable poems, packed with lines you want to read aloud to anyone within earshot.
– D A Prince, The Friday Poem
Yates’ way of seeing is an admission that nothing is making sense, an open-eyed, and strangely brilliant examination of the zeitgeist as if viewed by a child, or from another planet… Yates informs his vision with a sense of stilled silence, slowing his narrative to a recumbent pace, to yield the panoptic distillation of a train journey in moments of staggering, simplistic beauty.
– Steve Whitaker, The Yorkshire Times
Many of these poems memorably manage to capture moments in time like photographic snapshots… Yates is insightful on the detail of modern life, looking at every day experiences in different ways.
– Poetic Justice magazine
