Stephen Dailly: 3 books

'Ghosts' started out as two collections of poetry written between 2001 and about 2008, one called Heroes and the other Ghosts. Since then, I’ve pruned them both, losing several pieces that had meant a lot to me but didn’t seem to work in the cold light of retrospect. I’ve also added in a few...

This was the first collection I put together in the Autumn of 1998, drawing on things I’d written since about 1985. It’s in two sections Muthos and Logos – muthos is ‘anything delivered by word of mouth’, hence it refers to narratives: ‘myths’ are narrative accounts that form the basic...

Adonibezek – the ‘Lightning Master’ – is a little known character who appears briefly in Judges, the seventh book of the Bible. Briefly – Adonibezek claimed to have maimed seventy other kings by cutting off their thumbs and big toes so that they begged for scraps ‘under his table’. This...