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      If only you'd made poems
then and there and now.
      The point at which you heard it.
It is a bad day of
      poetic karma but nothing is boring usually.

So, we went in search
      of the Something Dove's call,
but rather than that voice...

                                                       - from We In The Hours 
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Rob Yates is a writer hailing from Essex. He has appeared as a bookseller, a bartender, a youth worker, a casual gardener, an English tutor, and a volunteer for various projects both at home and abroad. 

He has completed a few novels and novellas over the years, all of them proving unpublishable, as well as short fiction and poetry, some of which has been fortunate enough to make its way into various magazines and online journals. 

​More recently, he has been turning his attention to writing ever shorter stories, exploring electronic literature, and to creating a website of experimental offcuts.

He also released a selection of poems some years ago, which can be purchased here. 

This site aims to act as a central hub for my work, to keep as much of it as possible under one roof, and to direct you towards more of it should you so wish.