BIO

MJ Duggan was born in Bristol in 1971 has had many poems published in magazines in the UK such as Carillon, Decanto, Square, Roundyhouse, Krax, Dwang 2, Seventh Quarry, Magpie's Nest, The Dawntreader, Graffiti, and many more.(Go to links for more info)

THE MODERN ORPHEUS

The first of three poetry projects by MJ Duggan, The Modern Orpheus is a sequence of sixteen poems released as a E-book last year, and due to popular demand is now available this April (2012) to buy in paperback. 

Click on link to read review at amazon.com

http://www.amazon.com/The-Modern-Orpheus-MJ-Duggan/dp/1475041241

Taken from the Modern Orpheus

         SONNET

Cherish his words Lord Hades

a man's mortal heart will foolishly sing

for he has journeyed the darkest places,

with all the burdens of a heart unhinged.

Sailing on the prayers of death's wings

as a man who splayed the forests in song

nurtering all the seasons sins

rendering his love from deaths wrongs.

To lay in earthly arms where she belongs

songs from an unpityful immortal,

while loves suffering could not be prolonged

charming a God to free loves alter.

The Lord danced to the poets fine beats

with one condition his love be released.

Taken from review

'it is Duggan's description of Hades that sounds so familiar, so modern, a contemporary urban landscape' 

'using beautiful lines and images that continue to haunt long after the reading is done' 

'Duggan has done something wonderful here'

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