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Sometimes the symmetry of things calls out for a response…
In May 2006 he played what turned out to be Laughing Gravy’s final gig.
He was approaching his 53rd birthday and, having been born in 1953, decided this might be a propitious time for a change of direction.
He hung up his guitar, packed his CDs and tapes of half-finished songs into the under-drawings, lit a fat cigar and waited to see what happened.
Poetry happened. All summer long he wrote and into the autumn - his intention being to wait for a year, review what he had written and, if he thought it had any merit, submit some for publication.
As things turned out one evening in November he got a little drunk and sent some off anyway.
Within a few weeks he had had three poems accepted. More followed. In the past eighteen months he has been published, regularly, in the U.K. the United States, Canada and, most recently, India.
Things happen. Fences fall.
Sometimes he gets e-mails from Gravy fans asking: What are you up to?
Sometimes he gets e-mails from people who have read his poetry asking: Who is this Laughing Gravy?
Hence this website.
C.P.Stewart is grateful to the following publications in which his poetry has featured.
Birmingham Arts Journal (1)
Cadenza (2)
Controlled Burn (1)
Dream Catcher (3)
Kotapress (2)
Mississippi Crow (17)
Misunderstandings Magazine (1)
Mobius (2)
Monkey Kettle (3)
Taj Mahal Review (2)
34th Parallel (2)
Poet's Ink Review (6)
Yippee Magazine (2)
The London Magazine (2)
River Poets Journal (2)
The Houston Literary Review (3)
Calliope (4)
Autumn Sky Poetry (1)
Camroc Press Review (7)
Four and Twenty (8)
Obsessed With Pipework (6)
Abandoned Towers (2)
Shalla Magazine (1)
Arbor Vitae (1)
Pirene's Fountain Poetry Journal (3)
The Shitcreek Review (1)
The Chimaera (2)
writersdojo (2)
Quintessential (5)
Cha: an Asian Literary Journal (3)
Poetry Monthly International (2)
Yes, Poetry (1)
Pig in a Poke Magazine (4)
Crannog Magazine (1)
Turtle Quarterly (1)
The Moon Publishing (2)
Boyne Berries (1)
C.P. Stewart has recently accepted the position of Poetry Editor for Sotto Voce Arts & Literary magazine (U.S.)
Website design and technical assisstance Ethan Bishop.
All photographs © Lizzie Stewart.
Poetry recorded by David Lawrie.
C.P. Stewart can be contacted at cpstewart@cpstewart-poet.co.uk.