Cloud River by Charles Bennett Lewis Freedman the poems and images of

the poems and images of this book form what Immanuel Kant might have called a cosmopolitan dialogue: a conversation between two speakers in two utterly different languages

including that of the young John Matthias at his grandfather’s house on Iuka Drive in Columbus

the risks and the rewards of oblivion

Torbay International Poetry Competition

Cloud River by Charles Bennett Lewis Freedman the poems and images ofThese lyrical poems, like the cloud river of the title, are a 'journey down a length of weather music'. Set in a level landscape of corners and lines (on fields, maps, the sky and the page), they generate beautiful surprises. They see a passing plane as 'the polished arrow of a plough', and teach us how to read cloud language. Through a fresh appreciation of England's lowest and newest landscape, they exemplify how engagement with straight rivers and