Terraces & Temples is the debut poetry collection of Stockport based writer John Robinson.
Written over the space of five years the reflective poems in Terraces & Temples deal with common themes of love and loss and are set against a backdrop of the natural world and its ever-changing seasons.
Like a sunlit walk at dusk when your mind begins to wander, Terraces & Temples is gentle, hopeful, meditative and at times heartbreaking. The book looks fondly and unashamedly into the past but is also filled with love and hope for the future.
Whether it's dealing with the gradual illness and loss of a parent, admiring the beauty of snow-covered countryside, reliving a childlike memory of the sea or meditating on his daughter's future, Robinson takes deeply personal and heartfelt experiences and turns them into small universal gifts that the reader can experience and take something from.
Occasionally Terraces & Temples takes a cine film fuelled train ride into the past to evoke kaleidoscopic childhood memories of seaside towns, days out in the country and people, lifestyles and traditions rooted in a different place and a different time.
The thirty-seven poems in Terraces & Temples were inspired by the author's childhood and the canal tow paths and rolling countryside of his home town of Marple.
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Verlagsort
Illustrationen
1 black and white illustration
Maße
Höhe: 203 mm
Breite: 127 mm
Dicke: 3 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-1-78963-230-9 (9781789632309)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
John Robinson is a writer and designer living in Stockport. Born in Manchester, he spent his childhood growing up in the beautiful semi-rural village of Marple on the edges of the Peak Forest Canal. After studying graphic design at Stockport College of Technology he moved into multimedia and web design. From an early age his real passion lay in writing poetry and short stories and his work has been published in several anthologies. The natural world forms a large part of the inspiration for his poetry and a lot of the poems in Terraces & Temples were conceived while out walking on the towpaths and in the surrounding countryside of his home town. John Robinson also takes inspiration from art, photography, music and popular culture and will mine any creative pursuit to find the spark of an idea for his poetry. He is currently a self-employed web designer and lives with his wife and daughter in Marple.
Birdsong; Gravity; Life on the wire; Oaknut; Llandudno; When the gardener has gone; Bench; The Donkey Stoners; Robin; Cloak; Snow on the roses; Little notes in second hand books; Chiromancy; Grandparents; Winter crown; The highest point on Earth; The apple tree; I still like to be beside the seaside; Fog; Memories of Rowarth; Joe; Murmurations; A shopping list for my daughter's future; The bridesmaid of Ancoats; On; Surrounded by trees; Physics; The bike and the coat; Lying awake at 3am worrying about heaven; Mind gardening; Winskill; Woodsmoke and whistling kettles; Looking for the red coat; Rock pools; Love letters; X-ray; The end of the season; Blackbirds in the goodnight;
