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I had brought Andrew’s collection Pandemonium because of pill-box which was included in 2022 Forward Collection, and then he was featured in Fourteen Poems, and so I decided I should start at the beginning with this debut collection.
As a prize-winner these are high quality poems – the consistency of the work is really amazing.
I tagged Jacob with the Angel, which really opens up a familiar story, giving it a roundness and life that those mythical parts of the Bible sometimes lack, and Finally, which processes loss – the final stanza “that it hasn’t rained / but the birds are pretending that it has / so they can sing.” speaks of something about how life going on is not a denial of the loss, it is simply survival.
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