Tom Sleigh, Author at Consequence Forum

Tom’s many books include House of Fact, House of Ruin; Station Zed, Army Cats (John Updike Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters); and Space Walk (Kingsley Tufts Award). His new book of poetry, The King’s Touch, was published by Graywolf Press (2022). His most recent book of essays, The Land Between Two Rivers: Writing In an Age of Refugees, recounts his time as a journalist in the Middle East and Africa. He teaches in the MFA Program at Hunter College.

Three Ways Out of Homer and “The Poem of Force”: Christopher Logue, Alice Oswald, and Michael Longley

by Tom Sleigh | May 24, 2022 | Reviews

Editor’s Note: It was just over forty years ago that the poet Christopher Logue published War Music, his “account” of The Iliad, and ten years ago that Alice Oswald published the book-length poem, Memorial, her engagement with the epic. In honor of these...

WIDOWS

by Tom Sleigh | Dec 2, 2021 | Poetry

Scene of Achilles tending to Patroclus We are so proud and excited to publish WIDOWS, a new long poem by Tom Sleigh, which appears in full for the first time here at Consequence Forum. At Consequence, our focus is literature and art that examines the culture and...