Surely it’s time to write a poem according to John James. Two quatrains please, written to the opening of A Theory of Poetry.”

And so the request went to 29 friends and collaborators of John James, 28 poets and one artist. John James published his New and Selected Poems, Sarments, with Shearsman Books in April 2018, but passed away a month later.”Surely it’s time to write a poem according to John James. Two quatrains please, written to the opening of A Theory of Poetry.” The collaborators are Kelvin Corcoran, Simon Perril, John Hall, Peter Riley, John Temple, Alan Halsey, John Wilkinson, Ian Patterson, Andrew Duncan, Denise Riley, Karlien van den Beukel, Peter Hughes, Gavin Selerie, John Goodby, Simon Smith, Geoff Ward, Anthony Mellors, Anthony Barnett, Lyndon Davies, Tony Lopez, Nick Totton, Chris Cornwell, Linda Kemp, Cliff Yates, Robert Vas Dias, Mark Leahy, J.H. Prynne, Romana Huk and artist Bruce McLean.