Pebbles, debris

and other poems

Plot

Product Description This slim and potent book represents Jim Dening's first collection of 53 poems. Dening's poetry is of simple sounds, suburban landscapes and ordinary acts filled with symbolism. The book contains award-winning poems - assembled from joy, grief, anger and meditation. Jim Dening's poetic voice is distinctive in poems notable for their onward pace and sense of pulsation, and for their satisfying resolutions. These are poems for a life revisited: poems on family, loss, love, landscape, rivers; humorous poems, ironic asides. A consistent theme and powerful language develop the study of the moment of reality, the recurring question: how do we gain access to the next level, the real, the spiritual? There are ghosts in many of these poems, and we, they suggest, are the future ghosts. This volume also makes an excellent traveling companion, with its many moments of philosophy, honesty and beauty. Review His work is accessible, wry, quite emotionally charged at times and with much dry humour that sometimes flares into anger... The voice is fresh, original and compelling... An enriching, enjoyable collection. --Online review at patchword.comAs with a Frost or an Edward Thomas, ...it is the mind behind the work which is always interesting, the language being sifted carefully for a kind of enviable transparency which does not come easily to most poets. --SOUTH poetry magazine.the elaborate Canons Ashby sequence proves truly inspirational... and indeed throughout this collection, we are cleverly interwoven into the narrative, not just as onlookers, but as 'ghosts of the future'. This is Dening at his most lucid, at the height of his range; breathing fire on the bones of mortality and history. --The Wolf Magazine About the Author Jim Dening has won awards and competitions for his poetry and is widely published in poetry magazines and journals. Dening has travelled worldwide and written recent poems on places as diverse as New York and Los Angeles, Beirut and Damascus (to appear in a future collection). In the past he wrote humorously on events from his previous lives, including business affairs and how to live amorously with wife, children and pets. His background has been in language study, in journalism and publishing on diplomatic history and boundary conflicts.