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About Tamar

Welcome to the website of poet Tamar Yoseloff.

Tamar Yoseloff was born in the US in 1965. Since moving to London in 1987, she has been the organiser of the Terrible Beauty reading series at the Troubadour Coffee House, Reviews Editor of Poetry London magazine, and from 2000 to 2007 Programme Coordinator for The Poetry School. Tamar
She currently works as a freelance tutor in creative writing.

Link to Tamar Yoseloff on Facebook or read her blog Invective Against Swans.

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Excerpts

Each night I'd drag the textbook to my room,
stare at diagrams of musculature until my mother
said goodnight, then by flashlight I'd find
my dog-eared Havelock Ellis, real life stories
of every kind of fetish: shoe sniffing, grown men

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How could words express this world, reeling
out of reach-
a place you don’t exist where I have seen
The Nolans, leaving

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What mattered was matter, the precise
weight of you, so many ounces
of flesh and blood,

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New Dates!
The Poem Sequence: Narrative and Form:
*Booking Now*
A residential poetry course at the Chateâu Ventenac 
in the South of France 29th March to 4th April 2012. 
http://www.chateauventenac.com/writingcourses/tamar-yoseloff.html


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