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"Willets is a talented voice, searching deeply in sobriety." --Financial Times
`a superb, thrilling debut'
--Daily Mail
`a superb, thrilling debut'
--Daily Mail
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An extraordinary first collection of poems from an assured new writer
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I heard Sam Willetts reading his poetry at the TS Elliot prize and was inspired to buy this book. It is even better on the page; accessible yet giving more and more at each reading. He may be another member of the Oxbridge Poetry Mafia but there is no posing and preening, just beautiful poetry that makes the minutes vanish. I haven't got much money at the moment but this was a wonderful buy - I haven't skipped a single word.
8 of 10 people found the following review helpful
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Autobiographical verse volumes are commonplace. Great autobiographical sequences are not. This is such a one. Quality and impact comparable to Birthday Letters make it a must read. A must read from which very many lines continue to resonate. But more, verse which illuminates profoundly the readers own life.
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Thanks for writing this. I was in the library passing time and I just found this book and opened it to the page with the poem 'digging'. I don't even normally read poetry.What a shocker, but its my darkest fear that I wake up with on sleepless nights, that i'll be that woman who wakes up in ten, twenty years to her life lost. It made me cry and I needed to thank you sam willetts, im keeping it on the wall next to my bed, and it helps.
(I also love the one about the robin flying in)
(I also love the one about the robin flying in)
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