Marillion

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ABOUT

Location

Raleigh, NC

Born	9/6/66

Gender

Male

Member

Premier Author

Joined

December 2003

Interests

Working out, writing, reading, movies, and music.

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.

The Vampire Sonnets was next, traditionally pubished in 2010, a verse drama written in Shakespearean sonnets, but its early version was forged right here at Fanstory. I've been published in numerous ezines, magazines, and anthologies, as well, including three appearances in Light Quarterly.

I'm back now, just for fun, and not for ratings, rankings, or praise. I'm a full-time business owner, writing consultant, and caregiver for a disabled father, so my time is limited, and my reviewing may be, as well. More than likely, most of my in-depth reviews will be of metrical poems, as that's my area of expertise.