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Everyday
Objects, Chance Remarks click here to preview this book "There
is an edgy, world-hardened tone to many of these poems... a
tone that adds authority and authenticy to the writing. "A
back catalogue of Derek's progress towards the excellent
poet he is today... His What a Waste, dedicated to Ian Dury
is brilliant" "all
poems should gel for the reader; some have an alluring twist
of meaning at the end; some dissolve to present another
perspective at the end; others emphasize by repetition." "Derek has a huge simmering explosion of images and ideas to draw from, and it shows in each poem" Jamie Spracklen, Visionary Tongue. "Derek
Adams has a lyrical ability while keeping images very much
in the forefront of the mind. His experience is transmuted
into the real stuff of poetry." "Through
Gauloises smoke, amid the buzz of a chainsaw dismembering
memories of past (perhaps tattoo-bruised) love, the poems in
this collection trace tectonic shifts beneath the surface.
These True Life Confessions surgically deploy images you
won't soon forget. Derek Adams writes good poems whose
themes seem torn from the pages of a 50s pulp novel. This is
writing that is entertaining, provocative, sometimes
shocking, and often lurid as hell." click here to preview this book Contents: |
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