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Marcus Cumberlege
THE POET
After many years in England, Ireland, France and Peru, Marcus Cumberlege settled with his Flemish wife Maria Lefever in Bruges, Belgium in 1972.
A prize-winning English poet of the 70s, his playful Bruges/Brugge (with Owen Davis and Herman Leys) won him immediate popularity in his adopted city. Several collections followed, including the most recent Angels at Work (2002) and JAIA or Just As I Am (2005).
Marcus Cumberlege often works in close partnership with the graphic artist Horst De Blaere. He writes simply and passionately about his private world, with flashes of British humour and oriental insights.
"He will be remembered for his wide-eyed intensity" wrote Alan Denson in The Irish Press.
Marcus has prepared a short BIOGRAPHY for inclusion in Selected Poems to be published in October 2010. (This is a .pdf Adobe Reader file).
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1956 & 1957 |
Winner of the Sherborne School Poetry Prize |
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1966 - 1972 |
Poems and translations published in more than 30 magazines world wide, including New Measure, Outposts, Expression, The Poetry Review, Shin Buddhist, The Dublin Magazine, Poetry India, The London Magazine, The Honest Ulsterman, Dremples, Crab Grass, Phoenix and Contemporary Literature in Translation |
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1967 |
Winner of the Eric Gregory Award, Britain's national prize for poets under 30 |
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1968 |
Oases (Anvil Press) |
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1970 |
Poems for Quena and Tabla (Carcanet Press) |
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1972 |
Running Towards a New Life (Anvil Press) |
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1975 |
Bruges/Bruges with Owen Davis (Manufaktuur) |
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1977 |
Firelines (Anvil Press) |
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La Nuit Noire (Manufaktuur) |
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The Poetry Millionaire (Dollar of Soul) |
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XX Vriendelijke Vragen with Horst De Blaere |
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1978 |
Bruges/Brugge (bilingual) translated by Herman Leys, illustrated by Horst De Blaere (Orion, Desclée De Brouwer) |
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1980 |
Vlaamse Fabels with Horst De Blaere and Herman Leys (Babel & Manufaktuur) |
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1981 |
Life Is A Flower (haiku) with Marleen Matthys |
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1985 |
Sweet Poor Hobo (Babel & Manufaktuur) |
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1993 |
Things I Cannot Change (Limited Editions) |
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1997 |
The Best Is Yet To Be (Manufaktuur) |
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2000 |
Once I Had A Secret Love (The Paper Tiger) |
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2001 |
The Moon, The Blackbird And The Falling Leaf haiku with Dutch translations by Odette Van Heirseele, Herwig Verleyned and the author (The Paper Tiger & Meyfroodt-Productions) |
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2002 |
Angels At Work with Dutch translations by Peter Albrecht, Piet Balfoort, Natalie Vervaet and the author (Meyfroodt-Productions) |
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2005 |
JAIA or Just As I Am (Meyfroodt-Productions) |
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2006
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The White Lady (Meyfroodt-Productions) | |