Salt Modern Poets
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The Rain Diaries is a book you’ll want to hold on to, accessible without being easy. It’s poetry that makes you think and feel. Words without the blinkers. At times, it says the unsay able with a power that kicks you in the chest. Within this collection there are people you’re already aware of even if you’ve never met them, because these poems reflect worlds glimpsed at odd angles that de-familiarise the well known, and make the unfamiliar recognisable. There’s genuine love in here, love of a city as well as a partner, and there’s blood lust here, and mob violence. There’s the magic of conception along with messed up relationships and the bitterness of failure.
This is a rainy day book, it’s like sitting in a café in town, not the pretty one that does latte and panino but one that does a nice line in tea and toast where you can sit invisible, watching people pass for as long as you like.
This is no-tricks poetry – it stands as witness, chronicles of lives lived without safety nets, often from the point of view of those living them. You might not like some of these people much, but after this, you’ll know them when you see them. One of them might be you.