John Tottenham is the author of one novel, numerous essays, and three volumes of poetry: The Inertia Variations (Kerosene Bomb 2004 & 2010), an epic cycle on the subject of work-avoidance, indolence and failure; Antiepithalamia & Other Poems of Regret and Resentment (Penny-Ante 2012), a sequence of mean-spirited love poems with particular respect paid to the institution of marriage, and The Hate Poems (Amok 2018), in which he adopts the persona of an embittered middle-aged man with frustrated artistic aspirations and a healthy ambivalence towards the accepted pieties of romantic involvement.
Books in order of publication:
The Inertia Variations – 2004
Antiepithalamia & Other Poems of Regret and Resentment – 2012
The Hate Poems – 2018
Fresh Failure – 2023
Service – 2025
Oak Lawn Library Friends 