Overview
Exploring the deep roots of identity, this poetry collection by Neil Powell touches upon inherited family histories, memories, and the casual decisions and wrong turns that make us who we are. From subjects such as childhood, leaving home, and first love to a compelling narrative based on a journal kept by Powell’s grandmother of her life in South Africa, this compilation demonstrates how perspectives shift with time. Other included pieces discuss the London bombers of 2005, the life of a grand piano, and elegize two old friends. Meditative, wry, melancholy, and celebratory, this is Powell at his most versatile and memorable.Author Biography
Neil Powell is a full-time author and editor and a former English teacher. His books include six previous collections of poetry, including A Halfway House and The Stones on Thorpeness Beach, and nonfiction works such as Carpenters of Light, The Language of Jazz, and Roy Fuller: Writer and Society.
