Triple Measures

Once members of a writers’ group at the University of Southampton and leading lights in the founding of an Arts magazine there, K.M. Miller, Ian Gouge and Tom Furniss joined forces back then to produce ‘Play for Three Hands’, a joint collection of their poetry. Having taken divergent - but successful - paths since then, their ongoing commitment to writing poetry sees them reunite forty years later to produce their second joint collection, ‘Triple Measures’.

K.M. Miller: “deft, skilful, deceptively subtle” - “tender, poised and alive with springy zest” - “Nature for Miller is nourishing, a replenishing bounty, a source of ‘annual joy’”

Ian Gouge: “a vein of bruised romanticism runs through the poetry” - “surprising turns of phrase and turns of perception” - “the freest of free verse… even so, the tug of tradition remains strong”

Tom Furniss: “poetry that celebrates technique, artistry, true knack and know-how” - “a keen appreciation of poetry’s nuts and bolts, paying close attention to rhyme, rhythm and metre” - “a tone that is both conversational and ruminative”