John Jordan: Selected Poems Jeffrey Wainwright

John Jordan: Selected Poems Jeffrey Wainwright"John Jordan was conscious of the general sense of malaise that pervaded post war Europe. Some of the poems from the 1960s and 70s come close to expressing a sense of weltschmerz (universal sorrow) [Others] are poems of pity and terror, and are truly haunting reflections on the nature of suffering, the mystery at the heart of forgiveness, and the question of redemption." from the Introduction by editor Hugh McFadden "These can be very dark poems full

Expatriate English

Mail on Sunday

ru) / Dmitry Kuzmin

mouth shape etc

Robin Moger

"Lawson's publishers are to be congratulated on publishing such a well-produced

Nazih Abu Afach – Seven Poems

in salvaging the poetic and the good from society’s wastelands

Most of the Englishmen here are very nice and decent

with a haunting mystical quality interfused

Margaret Obank The World’s Embrace by Abdellatif Laâbi

"enabling us to discover the poetics of the real world"