Darius Degher's vivid and echoing poetry is born out of an impressive fusion of curiosity and compassion. With an explorer's instinct his poems map that borderline region between the material and immaterial worlds, from which he writes back with the kind of taut, intelligent lyricism and resonance which only comes from true poetic attention.
– Jane Draycott
Darius Degher's poems are precise, earthy and humane; rooted in personal narratives, they form bright eddies in the flow of historical time that his work both recognizes and resists, insisting on the living moment and its sense of connection.
– Graham Mort
Darius's poems have been published in various journals and magazines on both sides of the Atlantic. These include Measure, Smiths Knoll, Agenda, Nth Position, Equinox, Other Poetry, Red Wheelbarrow, Poetry Salzburg Review, Fire, and Italian Americana. He is currently seeking a publisher for his first collection.
He has a MA in Creative Writing from Lancaster University in the UK and a BA in English and American literature from UCLA. He teaches writing and literature at Malmö University in Sweden. He is also a writer of songs, a recording artist, and a musician.
Darius is the editor of the Shipwrights Review, the literary journal of decentered English, which features short stories, essays, and poems by non-Anglophone authors.
