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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 Yoseloff

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. She received a New Writers' Award from London Arts (now Arts Council England, London) for a manuscript in progress, which was eventually published as her second collection, Barnard’s Star (Enitharmon Press, 2004) Her latest book, Fetch, is published by Salt in April 2007, as well as a collaborative book with the artist Linda Karshan, which is published by Pratt Contemporary Art. She is also editing an anthology of writings to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge, due from Salt in late 2007.

She holds a MPhil in Writing from the University of Glamorgan, and is currently working towards a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. She teaches Creative Writing for a number of institutions, including Birkbeck, Spread the Word and the Poetry School. In 2005 she was Writer in Residence at Magdalene College, Cambridge, as part of their Year in Literature Festival. She divides her time between London and Suffolk, and is working on her first novel.

To contact Tamar, please email her at: info@tamaryoseloff.com

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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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