An elegantly jubilant and personal new collection celebrating love,
life and creativity from award-winning poet and Booker Prize-shortlisted
novelist, John Fuller
In this personal and characteristically brilliant new collection from
John Fuller, an abundance of memories abound. From "those once endless
years" of a childhood in wartime - tasting of Granny's chicken soup,
twizzers and cherry-go-rips - to the pattern of family and friendships,
important milestones are brought to vivid life. In 'Before We Met - and
After' a sequence of recollections cherish a wife on her eightieth
birthday; 'In Whose Head' a piece by Schumann is revisited through
advancing years; and in 'Keeper of the Fire' and 'In Memory of John
Bayley' late poems of remembrance memorialise lost friends.
These are poems of being and time, full of lyric feeling and Fuller's
distinctive wit and lightness of touch. Alive with the clang and sway of
the "chosen colours of daily family life", together they form a resonant
gathering of poems that celebrate, with thoughtfulness and joy, "the
feel and length of our lives".