A Confection of Imperfect Perfection
The Very Now Poems are exactly that: war in Ukraine, Global warming, the cost-of- living crisis, a visit to A & E, stress, insomnia-yes, they’re there. But it’s not all doom and gloom: even the direst situations can be leavened with humour.

Climate change, the cost-of-living crisis; corporate greed, insomnia and mortality – yes, they all feature here, delicately interwoven with joyful poems celebrating love, family, food, basking lizards. And angels.

The poems offer shared recognition; words that chime; satisfying rhymes; there’s the quantum poem, Dark Matter; What of Love and Motorbike tell of 21st Century love; Puddings is nothing but puddings, while The Comfort of Chocolate twins global warming with the pleasure of chocolate; Disclosure is a lighthearted take on The Ancient Mariner; there is the essential Cat poem, Cat and Mouse; an unwelcome sexual encounter is transmuted into dark humour in Pigeon Pecked.

Poetry takes words, crumbles them and dunks them in the steaming hot tea (latte if you prefer) of the imagination.

Enjoy!