Book description
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. Alan Jenkins was born in 1955. He lives in London
and works for the
Times Literary Supplement.
