Peter Daniels's poems are those of a natural story-teller with a gift for creating off-beat characters and playful, unpredictable narratives. his eye for the absurdity of every-day life is sharp but gentle, his tone light but authoritative.- C.Rumens
Disappearances, which features an astonishing variety of verse forms and voices, from mediaeval times to the present day, is Kathleen Bell first full-length collection.
Challenging and tender, these poems are a rite of passage. Philip Gross's much praised previous collection, Deep Field, explored the loosening connections between the self and language in his refugee father's old age.
The two searching sequences that bookend this collection are not so much elegies as unfinished conversations with friends no longer living - friendships lost or neglected, with their closeness and distances sensitively mapped.