Bob has published fifteen collections of poetry and seven pamphlets through a variety of independent presses, some titles were written in collaboration with other poets.
Bob Beagrie is a master poet and story teller. As always his work blends elements of the historical and mythical, the sacred and the secular. ‘The Hand of Glory : a biography’ is a welcome addition to his long line of fascinating, idiosyncratic and accomplished books.
A dazzling display that re-establishes the fact that Beagrie is one of the best poets and writers of his generation.
Jack Caradoc
Romanceros: poems inspired by the Spanish Civil War, Drunk Muse Press 2024.
“These tightly turned vignettes draw from multiple literary, artistic and historical sources to create a layered lyric archive of the Spanish Civil War.” Fran Lock
Eftwyrd, Smokestack Books 2023.
This epic poem is the sequel to Beagrie’s Leasungspell, in which a monk called Oswin was travelling from his monastery at Herutea (Hartlepool) to Streonshalh (Whitby) with letters from Abbess Hild. His journey was interrupted, to put it mildly, by a river-witch called Peg who captured him as he tried to cross the Tees and held him underwater for seven years. Eftwyrd begins with his escape.
The Last Almanac, Yaffle Press, 2023
Spanning twenty years the poems in The Last Almanac are compressed into a single year’s calendar, charting subtle seasonal shifts, phases of the moon, ancient holy days, moments of the seemingly mundane and the peaks and troughs of living, growing, loving, gathering in and letting go.
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““Beagrie’s latest collection is recurringly good – recurringly catch-in-the-throat good. With expert twists and turns of language and emotion, he deftly makes us explore the layers of the pandemic’s impact. From the punch-in-the-gut poignancy of ‘On Touch’, through a wonderful complexity of prose poems on our disturbed and disturbing times, this is a collection that will resonate long after Covid fades from our collective memory.” – Char March
“This collection chronicles the strange legend of the plague year – all distances, absences and grief – bursting with energetic presence, restlessly, defiantly embodied. The poems’ diverse robust forms are as if each one were being tested to see if it can bear the weight of all that surreal sudden change. There is strength in such faithful truth-telling, even amid heartbreak, fracture and loss. Bob Beagrie finds words for the unsayable, to ask what will endure in our unknown future.”
– Linda France
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And Then We Saw the Daughter of the Minotaur is a beautiful sequence of poems, a pamphlet with a gloriously surreal cover by poet and artist Jane Burn. It’s published by the Black Light Engine Room Press, and costs £6.00 including postage.
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Civil Insolencies tells the dramatic story of the battle of Guisborough in North Yorkshire on 16 January 1643, when Parliamentary soldiers defeated Royalists forces in order to secure the crossings over the River Tees.
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…an exhilarating and exciting journey with two talented poets.
Bob Beagrie described Remnants as: ‘a futuristic sequence of post-apocalyptic dream visions based on the notion of a small tribal community struggling to survive after the next Great Flood.’ The result is an ambitious and often unsettling collection.
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Prepare to taste the worm in the golden apple of Camelot as the evocative poets Jane Burn and Bob Beagrie peer behind castle walls and uncover the soiled sheets of the romance / betrayal of Lancelot and Guinevere. Slipping seamlessly from the lyrical to the modern.
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Leásungspell is a narrative epic poem about a pre-Modern world. It is a tale of twisting digressions, dreamscapes and stories within stories.
Set in the wild lands of Northumbria in the year 657AD, Brother Oswin sets off from the monastery of Hereteu towards Streonshalh, tasked to deliver secret letters from Hild to Eorl Alhfrith of Deira, and enroute he must come face to face with his own demons.
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A perfect little pamphlet containing 72 haiku, each written in response to the 72 micro- seasons that make up the traditional Japanese calendar, adapted to reflect a year in Tees Valley.
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