Marillion is David Nelson Bradsher, a self-constructed Byronic Hero (or Zero), flawed but well-meaning, simple but paradoxical, and still a work in progress.
He graduated from the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill) in 1989 with a B.A. in English, but it took life experience and familial hardship to bounce him back to the world of poetry just a few years ago, and he knows he's found a home to build, live in, and renovate as needed.
He is a metrical poet, a late-arriving disciple of New Formalism, and he still believes in the traditional forms, its meters, and rhyme's ability to capture the reader's ear and memory with an accordance of sound and music. While he is unabashedly a poet of iambic verse, he also has an appreciation for the other types of poetry that are prevalent today. Live and let live.
He was Fanstory's Poet of the Year in 2004, and was fortunate enough to earn a publishing contract with Sterling Peony (Lorraine Sautner) and Guitar Shredder (Dave Caudill). "Kindred Trinity" was the result.
Another book is in the works, which has been approved for publication, and will be making it's way to towards publication when Marillion stops writing new poetry long enough to choose what will ink the pages of "Pieces of the Fortress".
The other prevailing project, which he will finally complete and edit this year, is "The Vampire Sonnets".
Marillion is also Submissions Editor for AEGIS, a poetry magazine and website hosted by "Poets vs Poverty," a humanitarian, not-for-profit literary arts group fighting poverty "one word at a time." To learn more about AEGIS, visit: www.poetsvspoverty.squarespace.com.
Marillion had to edit his previous bio, well, because he got sick of it. Now, about that picture... |
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