Paperback, 82pp, 8.5x5.5ins
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This collection, the author's first full-length book, gathers poems written over the past decade. The poems, some gathered from previous pamphlets, are concerned with place, love, identity and mortality. Nature is never far away and neither are the watchful eyes of the cities of Liverpool and New York, their tidal rivers and connections.
" Radio Mast Horizon
travels well. Read it on the train, in a hotel room, at the bus stop sheltering from the rain. Andrew Taylor's absorbing, tender poems see clearly. By turns playful and moving, tender and taut, they make absence tangible. A generous collection that still leaves you, in the best sense, hungry for more." —Cliff Yates
"Andrew Taylor is a poet who engages with the world — in all its affects and aspects — and says what he sees with both compassion and wry wit. These poems have a linguistic clarity and invention and observational flair which open us, his readers, into a series of vital encounters with the here and now. Taylor shows us where we live too." —Patricia Farrell
"With a voice fresh and responsive, these poems' chiselled lyricism is firmly located in terms of time and space (and often place). They speak to us from those locations, about love, about absence, about abundance. Their moods shift from the elegiac to the ecstatic and we move with them as we read. Everything is in them, it seems. Including us. At last Taylor's impressive oeuvre is amassed for the audience it deserves — that's us too." —Robert Sheppard
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