Saturday, 13 June 2020

Carrying Women Across Rivers

Carrying Women Across Rivers (2020)
Gloomy Seahorse Press

Quirky poetry in the light-hearted tradition of Richard Brautigan, Don Marquis, Hilaire Belloc, Blaise Cendrars and Edward Lear.

133 verses and prose poems ranging in length from one-sentence quips to absurdist ballads. Space, time, love, journeys, fruit, the thoughts and feelings of inanimate objects and monsters are among the themes covered.

From the back cover:

"Dear reader,please don't have great
expectations about this poetry collection
because you might be disappointed
and I don't wish to be hated by you.

So kindly remember, before you enter,
that although most of the book could
surely be better, all its unrhymed parts
could hardly be verse..."