A Bluebottle in Late October by John Wheway Carcanet Press ' – Geraldine Monk

' – Geraldine Monk

which then act not as statements of arrival or recovery but as points of departure

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Here are stories of experience and imagination – of a man’s clothes taking on a life of their own

A Bluebottle in Late October by John Wheway Carcanet Press ' – Geraldine MonkJohn Wheways first full collection places its trust exactly where it should be: in the poetic present tense where every gnomic detail is magnified, every commonplace brought to its own species of transfiguration. At a time when the lyric is so much in need, he rejuvenates it in its most pellucid and most effortless form; the couplet is reshaped and crystallised, and comes to life. A Bluebottle in Late October is a memorable sequence of poems. Tim