![]() ![]() Winners of the UCP Inner Circle Award will be offered the opportunity to publish a book with UnCollected Press and will be able to introduce and collaborate directly with UCP/RAR Editors on their own projects, as well as projects they introduce from other writers and artists. The artist’s body of work as expressed in other publications and venues will also be considered. He has been a multiple nominee for the Pushcart Prize.Įditors at RAR will be nominating, discussing and selecting Poets, Fiction Writers and Artists who have established themselves as regular contributors of exceptional writing and artwork to UCP journal issues, contests, anthologies and books published by UnCollected Press. He has made his demons into his friends and professes his eternal love for the muse. He listens to birdsongs and classical music and embraces every day like it was the first and the last. He has never had any ambitions or dreams, with the exception of becoming a recluse with his beloved cats. He has and will never lose sight of love and compassion. He has at one time or another been homeless, hungry, lonely, jubilant and defiant, melancholic and dark, loved and loving, hostile and surrendering, successful and joyful, damn down dirty and crazy, arrested and applauded. After reading Kerouac’s ‘On The Road’ aged 17, he went off the rails for 3 decades. John was born on the South East coast of the UK in 1963: he began writing poetry in his mid-teens and has never stopped. Selecting John as the first winner of The UnCollected Press Inner Circle Award underscores the deep respect and love we feel for our colleague and friend John D. ![]() John has been selected for all the right reasons: his uncompromising commitment to conveying precisely what he sees his compassion for those of us who suffer in obscurity and neglect his unadulterated and unadorned writing that eschews all things commercial, superfluous and pretty (for pretty’s sake) the outrage and agony that motivates his constant, unapologetic commitment to poetic expression of what is. UCP’s first published book (of poetry) was John’s devastating and compassionate book of poems “Hang In There”. John has poetry published in hundreds of journals across the globe, has written an impressive selection of books (see bibliography below), has regularly appeared in The Raw Art Review and has had two books of poetry published by UnCollected Press (UCP). ![]() Robinson has been selected by UnCollected Press / The Raw Art Review as the first Winner of it’s newly established ” INNER CIRCLE AWARD”. rOBINSON WINNER OF THE UNCOLLECTED PRESS INNER CIRCLE AWARD ![]()
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