Includes poems of love and disenchantment, poems about landscapes, both familiar and unfamiliar, poems in which the poet, with her acute powers of observation, looks at the 'ordinary' and redraws it in an extraordinary, even a disturbing, way.
Jackie Wills brings a multitude of characters to these poems including a young man sleeping in his car, an amateur entomologist, bird catchers, her jilted aunt, Ray Dorset, the three Robins, the office cleaner, family, friends and several gardeners.
Jackie Wills' poems are witty, stylish and taboo busting. They move from a super yacht to allotment, sewing as act of devotion, ask if age brings truth or destruction. Imagine... Læs mere