Jeremy Over was born in Leeds in 1961. His poetry was first published in New Poetries II. There followed two Carcanet collections, A Little Bit of Bread and No Cheese and Deceiving Wild Creatures. He currently lives on a hill near Llanidloes in the middle of Wales.
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'These poems rollick as they explore relationships between sound and sense, interweave the surreal and the mundane, and conduct whimsical, unpredictable journeys. The work teems with intelligence and delight.' - Carrie Etter; 'Over's is a poetry of endless curiosity and intellectual generosity... The long poems and sequences capture a quality of musical improvisation, but the attention is pulled back, again and again, by unexpected lyrical detail; as if distraction (by beauty, by stupidity, by wonder) were the only true method. And it is.' - Luke Kennard; 'Joyous panoplies of alphabets warble, blossom and assemble into word songs made simultaneously Stately and playful... Slip on this luxurious garment of a book where the language weather is always perfect.' - Lee Ann Brown