Templar Poetry has been running a series of pamphlet competitions for five years now as part of a pitch to widen the poetry market. Their latest winner is Paul Maddern of Belfast, who draws on his Bermuda experience in Kelpdings.
I met the manager and publisher of Templar, Alex McMillen, at the Troubadour, a popular poetry venue on the Old Brompton Road in London.
The music in the background is the irrepressible Cathal Dallat, whom many readers will know from the John Hewitt Summer School. He was so loud that I had to record the interview with the mic practically up Alex McMillen’s nose, which is why there is more popping than there should be.
