RICHARD HAWTREE
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Your Memory Singing
Richard Hawtree's second collection of poems is dedicated to his grandmother, Frances Mary Murray (1923–2023). Mary was born in Colchester, but spent her early childhood in Cairo. Her rich memories sing through many of these poems.
His talent to surprise and entertain with language and his perceptive observations again delight the reader — so much of the present and the past is contained and richly expressed in poems where not a word is wasted or out of place. ISBN 978-1917101-01-1
2024 paperback, 50 pages RRP £9.99 |
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The Night I spoke Irish in Surrey
'In these poems of exquisite freshness, Richard Hawtree shows that he is one of those rare poets who, in the words of Seamus Heaney, invites us to be in ‘two times at the same place’. In this, his debut pamphlet, he conjures a world where the ‘dark matter’ of the past coexists, luxurious and palpable, with a deftly articulated present, where WAV files and fibre-optics channel Catullus and St Colman. Distinguished by a limber unforced command of form, by a sense of unbridled linguistic play, Hawtree sets us freewheeling through the Anglo-Celtic archipelago, exploring hidden linguistic byroads, historical cul-de-sacs and a turbulent modernity.'
– Billy Ramsell ISBN 978-1-907435-75-1
2019 paperback, 52 pages RRP £8.00 |
