The poems in this, Alan Jenkin's third collection, speak of the harm done and suffered - most frequently in the name of love - in the course of lives gone adrift among lost causes, chance meetings and missed chances. A new directness and simplicity, and throughout, a raw urgency of personal feeling, inform a voice that is as resourceful as in Jenkin's earlier volumes, and continues to salvage a 'fugitive lyricism' (as one reviewer put it) from harsh and dissonant realities. 'By turns jocular, disquieting, sexy and inventive'-PETER READING, SUNDAY TIMES 'Jenkins' poetry is exhilarating. . . It is charged with erotic energy, rage, sorrow and confusion'-TLS 'Stylish, Savage, unforgiving'-HUGO WILLIAMS, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 'Jenkins has a restless mind: following his poetry gives his readers a rocky ride, but also a rewarding one. '-PETER PORTER, OBSERVER.
Vorwort
The new collection from one of the most engaging voices in contemporary poetry: a popular and accessible younger poet who reaches a wide audience.
Autorentext
Alan Jenkins was born in 1955. He lives in London and works for the Times Literary Supplement.
Klappentext
Alan Jenkins' two collections of poetry, In the Hothouse (1988) and Greenheart (1990) established him as one of the most inventive voices in contemporary poetry. The technical control and attention to detail that characterise his work are amplified and extended here, but the subject matter is now specifically personal: private exploration in the field of relations and relationships through poetry which ultimately confronts the author himself. Bittersweet, ranging from the vulnerable to the vicious, it is harm - both given and received - that lies in wait at the heart of these unsettling poems.