Robin, Thomas – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk Henley-on-Thames Fri, 15 Mar 2024 09:26:56 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-Bell-Background-Blue-32x32.png Robin, Thomas – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk 32 32 The Weather on the Moon https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/the-weather-on-the-moon/ Fri, 21 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/the-weather-on-the-moon/ The poems in The Weather on the Moon turn Manet on
his head, enter the thoughts of a post prandial lion, view and buy a 'snorting'
Hot Rod, and imagine life on a modern-day Titanic. Bubbling away
throughout this intense, sometimes humorous, sometimes quirky, always
compassionate poetry is a joy in language, its possibilities, and music.

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Bubbling away throughout this intense, sometimes humorous, sometimes quirky, always compassionate poetry is a joy in language, its possibilities, and music. As Graham Hardie writes, his work ‘fuses many elements into one short space: pathos; wit; dexterous use of simile and metaphor; a heightened imagination; an ability to make poetry from the commonplace.’

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