Collected Shorter Verse Vol. 1 gathers the first tranche of Craven’s poetic work, drawing from the Sonnets, Mostly Bristolian and the Odes, Epigrams & Further Sonnets. What emerges is a dual corpus of iambic attack, civic lament, and philosophical invective. The sonnets are formally impeccable and morally exasperated; the epigrams cut with Augustan precision; the couplets march in step with Pope, Dryden, and Swift- only to find themselves parked outside a Travelodge on the M4
- Sonnet 141 – The Hypertexts
- Sonnet 142 – The Hypertexts
- Sonnet 24 – NonBinary Review, Zoetic Press
- Sonnet 53 – Clementine Unbound
- Sonnet 56 – Clementine Unbound
- Sonnet 59 – The Hypertexts
- Sonnet 69 – The Hypertexts
- Sonnet 74 – The Hypertexts
- Sonnet 75 – The Hypertexts
- Sonnet 78 (The Russell Brand Sonnet) – Richard Craven’s Blog
- Sonnet 83 – The Society of Classical Poets
- Sonnet 89 – The Society of Classical Poets
- The Montpeliad – Bristol 24/7
- The Wokeiad – Free Speech Backlash
- XVII – Sonnet 141 en englais, traduction de l’auteur – The Hypertexts
- XXVIII – A Sapphire in the Mud – The Hypertexts