This website is intended to showcase what I can do with words. From time to time I arrange them into poems, something I feel an increasing sense of vocation about. I also read words out loud, an activity which various friends and strangers have encouraged me to pursue more seriously. So, I’m presenting here a poetic portfolio, to which I’ll add by posting new poems as I write them and as (I think) they merit the light of day; and also an invitation to request voice demos and browse my performance résumé. Enjoy!
— Tom Moss Gamblin
About the quotation: It’s from Auden’s great poem, “September 1939″…
All I have is a voice
To undo the folded lie,
The romantic lie in the brain
Of the sensual man in the street
And the lie of authority
Whose buildings grope the sky:
There is no such thing as the state,
And no one exists alone;
We must love one another or die.