Notions by John Kelly Books There are poems about places

There are poems about places near and far

He was by then very near to mental collapse

introduced by Booker Prize-winning author John Berger

family and childhood

Notions by John Kelly Books There are poems about placesConstantly inventive and unerringly precise, the poems in John Kellys debut collection reveal an author at home with both the stand alone lyric and the longer, apparently improvisational pieces that contribute so much to this books extraordinary brio and style. The breadth of cultural reference is perhaps a given, but Kellys real achievement is to make sense of a sometimes teeming field of vision. From the natural world to the troubled north of his