Loosely memoir-shaped and peopled by those close to the poet, Kate Behrens' second collection, Man with Bombe Alaska, travels between London, Turkey, Italy, Spain and the English countryside. The poems also map paths between states of mind and place or person, not to pin down experience with conclusions but for unexpected beauties, openings. Images are laden with metaphor but stand for themselves, at times with the kinds of heightened awareness arising from sudden shock. Behrens' language explores points of convergence where abstractions that seem to transcend the world merge with finely wrought detail in ways that release deep affect.
About the AuthorKate Behrens' collections, The Beholder, Man with Bombe Alaska, and Penumbra are published by Two Rivers Press. Her poems have appeared in Poetry Salzburg, The High Window, Stand, Blackbox Manifold, Mslexia, The Arts of Peace, an Anthology of Poetry, and as Oxford Brookes' Poem of the Week.
Reviews'A very haunting, emotionally fraught and entrancing collection'-Adam Piette
Book InformationISBN 9781909747142
Author Kate BehrensFormat Paperback
Page Count 74
Imprint Two Rivers PressPublisher Two Rivers Press
Weight(grams) 106g