Jeremy Page was born in Folkestone in 1958. He has lived in France and Italy, and spent many years in London before moving to East Sussex. He now lives in Lewes and teaches at the University of Sussex.
His poems have appeared frequently in magazines and anthologies and he has published two pamphlet collections, Bliss (Crabflower Pamphlets, 1989) and Secret Dormitories (Crabflower Pamphlets, 1993) and one full collection The Alternative Version (The Frogmore Press, 2001). He is a featured poet alongside Robert Etty, Giles Goodland, Sophie Hannah, W H Petty and others in Kate Pemberton's anthology The Silent Key (1997).

Quelle: poetry pf


Reading P D James in San Francisco

Downstairs at the Monticello
I sip a fine Sonoma Valley Chardonnay
and read P. D. James.
Her man is on the Norfolk coast again
while I am on the Pacific seaboard
thousands of miles west,
on another planet.
His clues, as ever, allow him
to piece together a complex jigsaw
of a universe where
effect follows cause
as night follows day,
where any disruption
to the moral order
is strictly temporary.
Here, my mini bar
is stocked with lethal substances
(so a warning sign reminds me
every time I’m tempted by a Scotch);
my TV orders me to open my heart
to Jesus, embrace eternal life;
and a man, who has
surely inhaled something,
mistakes me for Elton John;
thanks me for the song
I wrote for Diana.


published in Lamport Court, number 3, summer 2004