POETIC
AGE

BY
ADRIAN WHICHER

Thirty poems written between 2008 and 2024 — on ageing and loss, technology and nostalgia, gardens, family and the small moments that make up a life.

Read the poems

Welcome to Poetic Age. I’m thrilled you’re here — because I have so much I want to share with you. I am passionate about Poetic Age, and I truly believe that passion is relayed back to my readers through the personal thoughts that I post. Explore the poems, and perhaps Poetic Age will ignite your own passions too.

The collection

Thirty poems

01Shame1 August 2008 02Dorking Town16 August 2008 03Never9 October 2009 04Given Up Again!!!2 November 2010 05Garden Nostalgia?11 July 2011 06Long Copse Ponds11 June 2012 07Cruel Time10 March 2013 08Annoyingly Mobile Conversation!16 April 2013 09Holiday Blues15 May 2014 10S.A.D. at Wintertime?11 November 2015 11Mind – Full? – Mess?20 October 2016 12Technophobe7 May 2017 13Film Nerds18 April 2018 14Books21 October 2018 15Sleep!23 October 2018 16Lisboa18 July 2019 17Gardenhead11 November 2019 18Covid-198 June 2020 19The Look on Their Faces29 August 2020 20Trapped in My Mind8 September 2020 21Parts of People29 July 2021 22Circus Dog31 October 2022 23Loss1 December 2023 24Mum1 December 2023 25Schizophrenic Dreams1 February 2024 26Thank You Dear Parents1 February 2024 27Rock Freedom20 May 2024 28Back to the Fuscia!8 July 2024 29Dadbook6 September 2024 30Interview for Santa14 October 2024

About

The book

Poetic Age is a first edition collection, published in 2026, gathering almost two decades of everyday life — its small joys, its losses, and everything in between.

Every poem here began as a thought worth keeping: a smoker trying to quit, a pebble taken from the sea, a dying fuchsia rescued from a garden centre, a father’s gardening book. Together they are a portrait of an ordinary, observant life.

Thank you for reading. — Adrian Whicher

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