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Bio


Jim Newcombe was born and grew up in Derby in the English Midlands. He has lived in London since 2006, working as a writer, editor, proofreader and book reviewer, and on a number of films for cinema release. He is a frequenter of the theatres, galleries and taverns, reconnoitring across London to partake in its spirited culture. His main preoccupations are literature, art, natural history and psychogeography.


Jim Newcombe


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Antedeluvia

Is the unguarded tongue sinful, when soul
fails to find a reconciling pattern
for what prayers cannot resolve?

The serpent is always present in whatever
unalterable origins; the grotto of ghost paths
where the larval host cracks out of its enclosure.

But there is a place, I know, where silk leaves burst
into always present, evanescent green,
and, deciduous though they are, remain constant.