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ROUGH MUSIC
THE NEW COLLECTION FROM
PATRICK B. OSADA
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ROUGH MUSIC (ISBN 1-904781-48-9) can be ordered from WATERSTONE'S and all good bookshops.
On line from :
TESCO, WH SMITH, AMAZON & THE POETRY BOOK SOCIETY...
DIRECT from BLUECHROME
Signed copies are available direct from the author at patrickosada@aol.com
Patrick B, Osada is a Warfield, Berkshire based poet who has been widely published in poetry magazines, anthologies and on the internet.
In 1996 his first collection, Close to the Edge, won the Rosemary Arthur Award for best first collection and was nominated for the Forward Prize.
His collection, Short Stories : Suburban Lives, (released in 2004 by bluechrome) has been well received :
Patrick B. Osada's second collection is the immensely confident work of a writer who combines accessibility with an enormous range of forms. Here's a very English voice that falls as easily into assured rhythms and rhymes, as it does exploratory verse. (His is) an intrepid and important new English voice.
Will Daunt, Envoi
The late Leslie Norris, one of the greatest Welsh poets of the Twentieth Century, remarked
I've not read anything quite like these poems - a very contemporary demotic voice.
Ronnie Goodyer, Editor, REACH, describes Short Stories : Suburban Lives as
a sideways look at life,brilliantly expressed
While Martin Holroyd, Editor of Poetry Monthly, claims that
the poems have grit and also the poet's instinctive inner eye for the beauty of emotion.
Writing in Black Mountain Review, Niall McGrath finds
carefully crafted poems which tackle contemporary issues and suburban myths with a keen intellect and conscience.
In a book review for REACH, Gary Bills writes
Osada is a fine social observer, (who) can be a very English poet. This is most evident in his command of flowing lyrical cadences.
In his third volume, Rough Music (bluechrome 2006), Osada's lyricism and social concern are again evident.
In the Warfield Poems his poetry is lyrically bucolic. However, his pastoral themes are underpinned by a concern with loss and the potential ravaging of village and countryside by planners and property developers.
Away from the countryside Osada populates his collection with a diverse range of characters - some famous, some iconic. He again demonstrates a lively concern with contemporary issues and attitudes, all reflected through a prism of compassion and wry humour.
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MY SCHEDULE OF READINGS :
Thank you for your support at the recent readings!
More to follow soon...Watch this space
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Warfield Launch :
Patrick's poetry workshop; Patrick reading at the launch at the Brownlow Hall.
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ROUGH MUSIC was launched at an EVENING of POETRY & MUSIC at The Brownlow Hall, Warfield on October 27th.
Many thanks to all of those who attended, bought books and said kind and flattering things...
With part of the collection devoted to Warfield, it was appropriate that the local launch of the book was part of The Northern Parishes of Bracknell Forest ARTS WEEK 2006.
I am particularly indebted to poet, artist and singer/songwriter Gail Dorrington for providing the music and to The Temys Poets : Tony Turner, Rosemary Muncie, Anne Reynolds & Richard Palmer (also from Warfield) for their excellent readings.
Gail's songs are available on CD (Songs from a quiet Room) and the Temys Poets' anthology (Love and other Places) is now available. Please contact Patrick at patrickosada@aol.com for details.
BLUECHROME AUTUMN LAUNCH
Patrick's publishers held a launch for all their Autumn releases, including
ROUGH MUSIC at The United Reform Church, Buck Street, CAMDEN NW1 on Saturday,October 28th.
With all profits going towards the church's Cold Weather Shelter, the event raised money as well as awareness of Bluechrome's latest books.
Reading at the event were Kevin Bailey (editor of HQ Magazine); Patrick Osada; Gareth Calway; Sue Guiney; Sam Smith (editor of The Journal); Maggie Sawkins; Claire Potter; Pat Jordan; Rose Flint; Guinivere Clarke; and Oz Hardwick.
We were privileged to be entertained by the great Donald Gardiner and amazed (as always) by the legendary Michael Horowitz... Dave Green provided a wonderful musical interlude and read from his novel Music of Maninjau...
Information about the new books at www.bluechrome.co.uk
A link to Dave Green's music can be found at www.davidgreen.org.uk
Bluechrome are planning other launch events - watch this space for details...
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Patrick writes about The Warfield Poems :
I have been fortunate to be able to spend a great deal of my life living in rural or semi-rural settings. The countryside is important to me and it is, therefore, unsurprising that some of my poetry should have a pastoral theme.
In writing about Warfield, I have attempted to record many everyday and seasonal events of the place where I live. I have been doing this for a number of years and many of the bucolic poems from my earlier collections are also set in this area of Berkshire.
I claim nothing exceptional for Warfield - in terms of history, scenery or wild life. There are places with more tales to tell, areas that are more beautiful, or enjoy exotic or protected flora or fauna. What makes it special for me, my neighbours and the many visitors who come here to walk, ride or cycle is the very fact that much of Warfield remains untouched and unspoilt in an area riven by motorways and so close to the concrete towers of "New Town" Bracknell. It is still possible to be in touch with a life and landscape which has been obliterated by planners and developers in other less fortunate villages.
Unfortunately, historic Warfield - mentioned in the Doomsday Book and once the hunting ground of Saxon Kings - is threatened with large scale development...
Once the bulldozers move in the deer, that have roamed this area for 1,000 years, will move on and with them many other species will leave.
With tarmac and streetlights Warfield will be submerged beneath a sea of houses, its traditions and rural atmosphere destroyed.
In the face of "progress" and the mindless plans of those happy to see Warfield turned into an "urban extension" of Bracknell, I offer up these poems as a celebration of local life and scenery and a warning of what we stand to lose.
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