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Failing Light - poems by Gerard Rochford
Embers Handpress. 2010. ISBN 978-0-9562686-1-7.
Responses from other poets:
Michael Dennis Browne. Poet and Professor of Creative Writing, University of Minneapolis/St. Paul. "These quietly startling poems surprise with their precision and imaginative richness..."
Magi Gibson. Makar (poet laureate) City of Stirling, Scotland. "...explores themes of love and loss, of separation and connection. ...with delicate and often witty observations of birds and animals (and) ...sensitively observed human relationships. A sensitive, engaging collection."
Lorna Crozier. Poet - University of Victoria, B.C. Governor General's Award, Canadian Authors' Award for Poetry. "The ghazals [in this collection] leap across the space between poet and reader and root inside you. You won't forget their power and insights."
Michael Dennis Browne. Poet and Professor of Creative Writing, University of Minneapolis/St. Paul. "These quietly startling poems surprise with their precision and imaginative richness..."
Magi Gibson. Makar (poet laureate) City of Stirling, Scotland. "...explores themes of love and loss, of separation and connection. ...with delicate and often witty observations of birds and animals (and) ...sensitively observed human relationships. A sensitive, engaging collection."
Lorna Crozier. Poet - University of Victoria, B.C. Governor General's Award, Canadian Authors' Award for Poetry. "The ghazals [in this collection] leap across the space between poet and reader and root inside you. You won't forget their power and insights."
Gerard Rochford was raised in Worcestershire and lives
in Aberdeen, Scotland.
He has been much published in the U.K. and Canada in magazines, anthologies and collections.
His poem 'My Father's Hand' was chosen by Janice Galloway as one of the best 20 Scottish poems of 2006.
His recent publications include Eating Eggs with Strangers, The Holy Family and Other Poems, and Figures of Stone. (Koo Press)
He has been much published in the U.K. and Canada in magazines, anthologies and collections.
His poem 'My Father's Hand' was chosen by Janice Galloway as one of the best 20 Scottish poems of 2006.
His recent publications include Eating Eggs with Strangers, The Holy Family and Other Poems, and Figures of Stone. (Koo Press)
The edition consists of 200 copies, 26 case-bound
and lettered A-Z, signed by the author, and 174 numbered in a Zerkall
mould-made card wrapper. The text paper is pure rag mould-made "Somerset"
from St Cuthbert's Mill. 36pp, 255x175mm.
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