Animal Hours by Barry Wilson
Green Bottle Press
Barry Wilson is a poet of wonderfully searching and finely-tuned lyricism. In Animal Hours he lays out a vivid mosaic of locations and encounters that movingly explore the wonder and fragility of the individual psyche and experience. There's not a poem here that doesn't contain some quietly thrilling moment of transform- ative imagining, not least in the poems addressed to his son: nothing but the wind/can stir your circuitry of soil and gold. A collection of real distinction'. Jane Draycott 'This work carries real excitement and charge. Whether watching telly en plein air or inhabiting a power cut, it navigates huge shifts of scale, slips of time, dissolves, and distances that are thrillingly opened or closed. It's a terrific debut'. Paul Farley
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