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A collection of very modern poems by Lloyd Rees, author of Voices without Parts. A virtuoso display of linguistic playfulness and deep human feeling.
Hardback 116 pages
Print ISBN 978-1-8380752-0-0
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In this powerful volume of verse Lloyd Rees examines three key aspects of the relationships a man has with women – with a mother, a daughter and a wife. A confident mastery of form is demonstrated in the taught structures of the expertly crafted poems, but it is the astonishingly frank emotional honesty that shines here.
There is rich imagery and beautiful melody but there is also a penetrating wit and startling humour in these elegies to loss and paeans to hope as the poet shines a laser light of truth on family ties. A collection of very modern poems that is a virtuoso display of linguistic playfulness and deep human feeling. Sometimes there is an echo of Larkin in the way a poem moves from the mundane to the profound but Lloyd Rees’s is a truly original voice:
If I could build for you a perfect home I’d build it out of driftwood and wet sand. I’d build it where the subtle sand crabs roam and shuffling water meets our ragged land…
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Mike Jenkins – July 31, 2020
‘One of Wales’ most promising poets’
Sarla Langdon – July 31, 2020
‘Probably one of Wales’ greatest living poets’
Lol Bainbridge – July 31, 2020
‘Poems that make your heart ache at the same time as you’re laughing joyously’
Amy Wack – July 31, 2020
‘Poems that exhibit a singular bitter wit’
Sally Roberts Jones – July 31, 2020
‘Pain and yearning, the hopes and fears of daily life are all expressed in a style that is devoid of pretence, yet wry and subtle, rich in poetic force’
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