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Brian Cox's latest collection speaks with the quietly assured authority of a lifetime's consideration of the arts of writing and living. Humane, humorous and acute, Cox's poetry honours the pleasures of home and holidays and friends, much-loved books and places, as the foundations of the civilised life, making endurable the pain and grief that are an inevitable part of it. In language that is precise, plain and lucid, these are poems whose hope and humanity continue to resonate.
From reviews of previous collections by Brian Cox:
'sprightly, modest verse makes for convivial reading...an enjoyable book, the felicitous thoughts of an unostentatiously cultured and observant writer.' - Peter Reading, Times Literary Supplement
'an attractive poetry...a poet so wary of the passionate and the rash writes poems in which passion and rashness seem mysteriously present.' - Edward Blishen, Times Educational Supplement
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