Category Archives: Poetry

Comics adaptation of Siegfried Sassoon’s “Before the Battle” in Plough Quarterly!

Posted on June 22, 2018 by julian peters comics

The new issue of Plough Quarterly, featuring my adaptation of Siegfried Sassoon’s poem “Before the Battle” (1916), is now out in print and online. You can read the comic here: https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/poetry/before-the-battle To view all of the contents of this latest … Continue reading →

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Complete “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” comic available for order!

Posted on May 23, 2018 by julian peters comics

I have finally gotten around to publishing a high-quality, glossy printed edition of my comics adaptation of “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T. S. Eliot (see post below). These comics are now available for order for $15 … Continue reading →

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My comics adaptation of Robert Frost’s “Birches” in Plough Quarterly!

Posted on March 20, 2018 by julian peters comics

A couple of months ago, the American magazine Plough Quarterly commissioned me to create a visual interpretation of an extract from Robert Frost’s 1916 poem “Birches.” The comic is now up on their website: https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/poetry/robert-frosts-birches and will appear in their … Continue reading →

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The God Abandons Antony

Posted on October 30, 2017 by julian peters comics

After suffering defeat at the hands of Octavian at the Battle of Actium (31 BCE), Antony and Cleopatra retreated to their power base of Alexandria, Egypt, where the two lovers had first met almost twenty-five years earlier. The Ancient Greek … Continue reading →

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“Elegy” by Leonard Cohen

Posted on September 11, 2017 by julian peters comics

A watercolour illustration inspired by “Elegy,” the opening poem in Leonard Cohen’s very first poetry collection, Let Us Compare Mythologies, from 1956.   Elegy Do not look for him In brittle mountain streams: They are too cold for any god; … Continue reading →

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“The World Is Too Much With Us” by William Wordsworth

Posted on September 5, 2017 by julian peters comics

My comics adaptation of William Wordsworth’s sonnet “The World Is Too Much With Us” (composed circa 1802), in which the Romantic poet decries the societal changes brought about by the Industrial Revolution. This comic originally appeared in the January 2017 … Continue reading →

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From The Look in Her Eyes, I Knew – A Villanelle

Posted on May 31, 2017 by julian peters comics

From The Look in Her Eyes, I Knew – A Villanelle From the look in her eyes, I knew She was riding to meet a guy. But is any of this even true? There’s no end to what I’ll construe … Continue reading →

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“East Coker” by T. S. Eliot

Posted on April 11, 2017 by julian peters comics

My visual adaptation of the last stanza of T. S. Eliot’s “East Coker,” the second poem of his Four Quartets. It was originally published in 1940. Eliot’s remains are interred in the parish church of St. Michael’s in East Coker, … Continue reading →

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“T. S. Eliot’s ‘Little Gidding’: A Visual Interpretation” in Plough Quarterly

Posted on March 24, 2017 by julian peters comics

A few months ago, the American magazine Plough Quarterly commissioned me to create a comics adaptation of the celebrated final section of T. S. Eliot’s poem “Little Gidding”, the last of his Four Quartets. The comic is now up on … Continue reading →

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ANUVAD 2017

Posted on March 3, 2017 by julian peters comics

Between February 11 and February 14 I took part in the ANUVAD Arts Festival 2017 taking place in the city of Silchar, India. Organized by the North East India Company arts collective, the second annual edition of this eclectic and … Continue reading →

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