Clive Culverhouse Biography

UK. Lincolnshire poet. Retired paramedic and mental health support worker. Clive's poem Another Day At The Office made the Long List of The Plough Prize for Poetry 2017. He has had poems published in poetry magazines such as Popshot Magazine and online at The Dirigible Balloon.
Clive has an interest in nature religion, of life, death and rebirth - the cycle of nature, the Eternal Return, and that we live our lives over and over, a thought that features in many of his poems. The universe and the earth often represent the female role in his poetry. Often a surrealist poet, Clive enjoys the magic and mysterious realms of realities that make up our multiverse. Clive also writes upon reflection of his time with mental illness, of depression and anxiety, another frequent subject of his poems. Mix with all that a smatherlump of nonsense poems and you have quite a collection. His poetry inspirations stem from poets such as Robert Graves and in particular the brilliant Leonard Cohen.

Poetry books - Oh, Fae-Folk (folklore poems) , A Smatherlump Of Nonsense Poetry (humorous verse) & The Opals of Ohbard and Pell (philosophical, metaphysical) are both available on amazon kindle or paperback