- Paperback: 84 pages
- Publisher: Days of Roses (23 Feb 2011)
- ISBN-10: 0956822304
- ISBN-13: 978-0956822307
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,074,517 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This beautifully produced collection opens with a moving poem by Costa book of the year 2010 award winner Jo Shapcott, but that's by no means the only thing going for the book. The other poets, some emerging, some more established, provide two or three pieces to the collection; and each one has something very engaging about it.
These poems, while often very personal, capture something heartbreaking and universal. There's one about grief and memory ('Till Dawn') that goes to the heart of what it feels like to miss someone you cared for or watched over. Meanwhile, I laughed out loud while reading the one about the hapless boyfriend, drinking in the sun and loving life while his girlfriend comes home to a dirty kitchen (Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle). There's a beautiful rhythm to The Wheatsheaf - with its pub days, memories of old places, 'amber liquid', and I found particularly moving a set that considers a father through the eyes of a son who is realising his own adulthood and his parent's true legacy ('Young Rain' selection). All the poems have humour, originality and offer very different takes on the usual subjects of love and loss.
One of the poems includes the line 'this is living' and that's really what this collection lets you feel and makes you remember. It's something that the routines of every-day life too often make us forget: the importance of love in all its forms, and the heady but finite exhilaration of being alive.
These poems, while often very personal, capture something heartbreaking and universal. There's one about grief and memory ('Till Dawn') that goes to the heart of what it feels like to miss someone you cared for or watched over. Meanwhile, I laughed out loud while reading the one about the hapless boyfriend, drinking in the sun and loving life while his girlfriend comes home to a dirty kitchen (Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle). There's a beautiful rhythm to The Wheatsheaf - with its pub days, memories of old places, 'amber liquid', and I found particularly moving a set that considers a father through the eyes of a son who is realising his own adulthood and his parent's true legacy ('Young Rain' selection). All the poems have humour, originality and offer very different takes on the usual subjects of love and loss.
One of the poems includes the line 'this is living' and that's really what this collection lets you feel and makes you remember. It's something that the routines of every-day life too often make us forget: the importance of love in all its forms, and the heady but finite exhilaration of being alive.
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