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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 since 2000, Programme Coordinator for The Poetry School. Tamar

A pamphlet collection (Fun House, Slow Dancer Press, 1994) was followed by her first full collection, Sweetheart (Slow Dancer Press, 1998), which was a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation and the winner of the Aldeburgh Festival Prize.

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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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