Divine Hours is a collection of poetry which has that intangible sense of being in the presence of a master craftsman, showing us the possibilities of language at its most inventive, and its most necessary.
Simon Barraclough was born and raised in Yorkshire - the son of an Irish nurse and an English tractor builder/musician - and has lived in London since 1997. He studied literature at Nottingham and Sussex universities and writes prose as well as poetry. He has devised and performed many multimedia live-literature events, including Psycho Poetica, The Debris Field, Sunspots, and Vertiginous.