Opus Thirty Three Bagatelles

By Peter Cowlam

'Opus Thirty Three Bagatelles', a collection of finely crafted miniatures, haikuesque in character, sees each little poem designed to be read as a single screen. 'To be honest / all I recall / of home / is an array / of tiny / fruit trees / grown in endless / tidy
rows.'

• Language: English
• Publisher: CentreHouse Press
• Release date: Jun 20, 2010
• ISBN: 9781452362700

Peter Cowlam

Peter Cowlam studied Performance Writing at Dartington College of Arts. He has had plays performed at the Barbican Theatre, Plymouth, and by the Dartington Playgoers, and has had readings at the State University of New York and for the Theatre West 100 Plays project in Bristol, England.As a novelist, he has won the Quagga Prize for Literary Fiction twice, most recently in 2018 for his novel New King Palmers, which is at the intersection of old, crumbling empires and new, digital agglomerates. The Quagga Prize is awarded for independently published works of fiction. In total he has had three novels published independently.He has had four collections of haikuesque poems published (one in collaboration with Kathryn Kopple), also independently, and as poet and writer of fiction his work has appeared on the Fairlight Books website, in En Bloc, The Battersea Review, The San Francisco Review of Books, The Blue Nib, The Galway Review, Easy Street, Literary Matters, Eunoia Review, The Brown Boat, Valparaiso Fiction Review, The Four Quarters Magazine, Ink, Sweat & Tears, The Liberal, the Criterion, and others.Peter Cowlam is the Literary Editor at Ars Notoria (arsnotoria.com). He can be contacted at [e-mail]

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