Towards Babingley
Published on 28. May 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
96 pages
978-1-80313-704-9 (ISBN)
Description
In this collection Paul Berry evokes settings with a strong sense of place and past. Against such backgrounds he explores universal themes of family, love, loss and longing. The strength of these poems is to highlight landscapes and the people who live and pass through them, combining to celebrate the extra-ordinary nature of the ordinary, familiar and everyday.
Comments on previous collections:
"Paul Berry reaches for top branches when it comes to inspiration...weighing up family, place, loss and love with a strong nod towards proud local roots"
-Keith Skipper, Eastern Daily Press
"...gritty, imaginative, sharply written visions. This is free verse at its best - full of real poetry and unusual and striking use of words."
-Outposts Poetry Quarterly
"...pensive, sometimes oblique, never depressing. Poetry to read and re-read in tension and tranquillity"
-Bogg, Journal of American and British Writing
Comments on previous collections:
"Paul Berry reaches for top branches when it comes to inspiration...weighing up family, place, loss and love with a strong nod towards proud local roots"
-Keith Skipper, Eastern Daily Press
"...gritty, imaginative, sharply written visions. This is free verse at its best - full of real poetry and unusual and striking use of words."
-Outposts Poetry Quarterly
"...pensive, sometimes oblique, never depressing. Poetry to read and re-read in tension and tranquillity"
-Bogg, Journal of American and British Writing
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Market Harborough
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Troubador Publishing
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-80313-704-9 (9781803137049)
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Person
Paul Berry is a past finalist for poetry in the Eric Gregory Awards (UK) and Sandburg Livesay Award (USA). He has published six collections of poetry previously, and is author of a social history recreating life on and around English airfields during World War Two and is compiler of the Norfolk volume in the Poet's England series (Brentham Press). He is co-ordinator of Centre Poets literature group, which he established in 1976.