Neil Leadbeater

Neil Leadbeater is an international author, editor, essayist, poet and critic living in Edinburgh, Scotland. His short stories, articles and poems have been published widely in anthologies and journals both at home and abroad. His most recent books are Librettos for the Black Madonna (White Adder Press, Scotland, 2011); The Worcester Fragments (Original Plus Press, England, 2013); The Loveliest Vein of Our Lives (Poetry Space, England, 2014), The Fragility of Moths (Bibliotheca Universalis, Romania, 2014) and Sleeve Notes (Bibliohteca Universalis, Romania, 2016). A selection of his poems in Spanish, La Transmissión de la Noche is due to be published in Buenos Aires, Argentina, later this year. He is a regular reviewer for the on-line journal Galatea Resurrects (A Poetry Engagement) (USA) and his work has been translated into Romanian, Spanish and Swedish.



	Sunflowers by Neil Leadbeater
	Lightbulb Moments: III by Neil Leadbeater Priestley discovering the composition of atmosphere and Toricelli’s invention of the barometerwas a 60 watt lightbulb moment. Souberran’s discovery of chloroformand
	Collapsible Chairs by Neil Leadbeater lie in confinement, arms folded, without complaint. They are not like other chairs. Uprights are so stand-offish. Unbending, they leave no room for manoeuvre,are too up

	Waking With A Poem Already In My Head by Neil Leadbeater Waking With A Poem Already In My HeadWednesday morning, waking with a poemalready in my head, I sawthe pond-skaterpirouetting on thin iceand knew, as I began to write,that I
	Interrogatives by Neil Leadbeater Those days we could use interrogatives like Did I tell you about the heatwave in July? and get a Yes /No answer without alarming the young about global war
	Demonstratives by Neil Leadbeater On a point of grammar demonstrative pronouns and determiners are singular this and that and plural these and those.
	This Poem is Practising Social Distancing by Neil Leadbeater The heart
	This Poem Contains Flash Photography by Neil Leadbeater This Poem Contains Flash Photography The paparazzi freeze you.A girl’s pendant catches the sun.For a second it nearly blinds you.You loo
	Moving A Peony by Neil Leadbeater Moving A Peony I moved one oncewith all the subtlety of a ham-fisted amateurblundering into the props; shifted itfrom the Grand Circle to the quiet reach of the Back Stalls.