New Light for the Old Dark
The poems in this remarkable first collection have been hard won: ''Fruits of much grief they are,'' as Donne said, ''emblems of more.'' Having lost ten years to heroin addiction and recovery, Sam Willetts emerges now - suddenly, and apparently from nowhere - as a fully-fledged and significant English poet.
In a book deeply conscious of history, one series of poems tracks his mother''s escape, as a...
The poems in this remarkable first collection have been hard won: ''Fruits of much grief they are,'' as Donne said, ''emblems of more.'' Having lost ten years to heroin addiction and recovery, Sam Willetts emerges now - suddenly, and apparently from nowhere - as a fully-fledged and significant English poet.
In a book deeply conscious of history, one series of poems tracks his mother''s escape, as a...
