Description
Many of the poems in Kevin Graham’s second collection find themselves outdoors — in woods, along the coast, down alleyways — by turns praising the natural world and mourning its evidential ruin.
Music and art inform jubilant lyrics that meditate on luminaries from J M Synge, Jack B Yeats and J M W Turner to The Frames, The War on Drugs and My Bloody Valentine. The central sequence ‘The Company of Trees’ plays with the language of ecology and literary history while ‘Easter 2024’ riffs on W B Yeats’s ‘Easter 1916’ for the modern era.
Rooted in the everyday and the otherworldly — both formal and free — these are poems that yearn for company and to be read and re-read.