We Go On by Kerry Hardie #Carcanetpress bloomed like an angry

bloomed like an angry

‘The poetry of Thom Gunn was much admired in his lifetime

and Green Migraine (2015)

together with the ever-present sense of mortality

We Go On by Kerry Hardie #Carcanetpress bloomed like an angryThis is a book about the irreducible core of what it is to be human in a world that changes constantly yet repeats and repeats. It uses images that speak to a place in us that does not depend on fashion but braves that over used word 'archetypal'. It is mostly specific to a landscape the author knows very well yet sometimes ventures beyond, always with the awareness that fear is our constant companion, but also joy. Its title holds an echo of Beckett: