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Some Other Where

Steven Matthews author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Two Rivers Press

Published:21st Apr '23

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A bold and brilliant collection of poetry about connection and disconnection. 

'Some Other Where' is about steps and missteps, disconnection, and connection, both in relationships and between ourselves and the world. Matthews’s poems embody those sudden jolts when we see our lives differently.

Some Other Where is about steps and missteps, disconnection, and connection, both in relationships and between ourselves and the world. Matthews’s poems, which have been described by Bernard O’Donoghue as ‘life enhancing,’ embody those sudden jolts when we see our lives differently. Work here touches on the climate crisis, on how the ancient past speaks to our present lives, and on moments glimmering with the extraordinary and the sacred.

‘Questions of now and then frame the spatial and temporal concerns of Some Other Where. Always attuned to nature, these poems are deeply implicated in the stories they arise from and the role they play in the now. In many ways, though beset with loss, these are fraught love poems addressed to nature and creativity that carry a solicitude from the personal to the universal. Always precise and un-laboured, the poems become suddenly familiar and necessary’ – John Kinsella

ISBN: 9781915048066

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 106g

80 pages