Just about to publish this book. I love the work of David Van Cauter. This is the second collection of his that we’ve published. This could move you to places you didn’t know you could go.
From the cover blurb by poet Emma Simon: In ‘Breathing’ we hear a voice trying to make sense of the world around him, whether it’s dealing with a declining difficult parent, wandering around follies of the past or today’s Brexit-battered high streets. And a sense of the end of the world haunts many of these poems: creeping closer to the flat-earther at his computer screen, or dealing with the emotional debris and physical detritus that accumulates from those who’ve left.
These are accessible poems that speak clearly to the reader, but deepen on each re-reading. The third part in particular, a sequence that is delicately and perfectly structured, is one of the most moving things I have read for a long time. I felt my own breath catch reading it, and needed the voice of the poet reminding both himself and the reader to focus on the ever-moving horizon, to keep breathing.
P.S. The cover is a piece of digital artwork also by me that I call “Anadlu” naturally.
