Aidan Semmens, poet with a lens

Out of the wreckage of The News of World has emerged something of true aesthetic and moral value – the poetry of Aidan Semmens... this is a book of poems that demonstrates why poetry is urgent news, an art form that finds its strength and power through revealing ambiguities and opening out the language in 'the difficulty of seeing anything'
— Simon Smith, Tears in the Fence

Semmens doesn't blink in the face of the big scam
— Kelvin Corcoran

The intelligence of this writing shows in the very word edges, brightly accurate and carefully attentive — Peter Riley

Hopefully, after his long sabbatical, Semmens has a lot of other work up his sleeve. If it's all up to the standard of A Stone Dog, it'll have been worth waiting for — Alan Baker, Litterbug

Aidan Semmens's debut poetry collection, A Stone Dog, is published by Shearsman Books

fine art quality photographs

journalism

In addition to being a published poet and photographer, Aidan Semmens is a freelance journalist whose sports writing has appeared in The Independent, the East Anglian Daily Times and the Ipswich Star, for whom he has also been a weekly columnist since 2003.
Examples of his opinionated column may be found on his blog here and of his work for The Independent here.