Welcome to the website of Dr. Alan Corkish MA MSc; poet, writer, publisher and reviewer who (together with Dr. Andrew Taylor MA) is the editor and owner of the erbacce poetry journal and of erbacce-press which organises the annual free-to-enter erbacce-prize-for-poetry

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 started July 2018

My brand new book is now available: click on the image to purchase.

Title; a-BIRTH-a-DAY

Hard-back, perfect-bound
Hand-stitched
Publisher: Original +
400 pages... 366 poems
Almost 80,000 words
Hundreds of illustrations

Already becoming known as
The Burgundy Book
Price £14.95 (inc)
Contents; 366 poems each one written and published on line each day for a full year; simply, a work of dedication and genius!

(Check out the poem written on your birthday)

The A to Z of Education was written under the pen name Chris O’Kalan and is a
satirical look at the British Education System.

Corrupted Memories is the second reprint of my poetry collection and contains
160 poems and a short story.

Electric Memories is a collection of fifteen (trueish) short stories.

Bum-Rap is a chapbook and you can download it for free on my Chap-book page.

42 Liverpool Poems is just that; a chap-book.

Island Poems are also just that, poems from the Isle of Man.

Groups is my first novel; a story set slightly in the future about anarchy in the UK.

Glimpses of Notes is a 25,000 word autobiographical poem currently with a publisher.

If you'd like to hear me reading book '1' of Glimpses of notes; hit the link above. 
To read the full text hit the 'Visit Glimpses site' button'.

If you wish to purchase any of the books; google the title or my name.

Use the menu on the upper left to peruse the site and email me if you have any comments or queries or I am on Yahoo messenger as alansky22; buzz me.
I would be happy to help if you are a budding writer or if you need help
or advice about getting published.