Whether the poems recall a square of chocolate dropped by a brother, show compassion for the suffering of ill friends, or imagine the creative life of Monet, they always understand the special power of poetry to leap across the spaces between people, and connect us to each other in a way that nothing else can. The sum of all this is a collection which does nothing less than make us proud to be human, and privileged to share these poems with a writer who is using his extraordinary linguistic gifts for the most significant explorations of the human heart.

About the Author
John Freeman lives in the Vale of Glamorgan and taught for many years at Cardiff University. Worple published A Suite for Summer in 2007, followed in 2016 by What Possessed Me, which won the Roland Matthias Award and the poetry section of the Wales Book of the Year in 2017. Plato's Peach is his twelfth collection.

Reviews
Awarding the Bridport Prize to "Exhibition' (included here) in 2018, Daljit Nagra wrote that it was "a powerful and subtle meditation on sexual dawning and flirtation between the sexes... the poem increases in complexity as the screw on the syntax is turned...a highly accomplished and beautiful poem."



Book Information
ISBN 9781905208463
Author John Freeman
Format Paperback
Page Count 190
Imprint Worple Press
Publisher Worple Press