A Bluebottle in Late October by John Wheway Carcanet Press which then act not as

which then act not as statements of arrival or recovery but as points of departure

evocative and eclectic

This colourful and vivid first collection continues the course of Mina Gorji's meticulous explorations of 'the strange and sometimes darker side of nature' and the different forms and meanings of escape: dandelions crossing the ocean

Underneath the defamiliarising ingenuity

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A Bluebottle in Late October by John Wheway Carcanet Press which then act not asJohn Wheways first full collection places its trust exactly where it should be: in the poetic present tense where every gnomic detail is magnified, every commonplace brought to its own species of transfiguration. At a time when the lyric is so much in need, he rejuvenates it in its most pellucid and most effortless form; the couplet is reshaped and crystallised, and comes to life. A Bluebottle in Late October is a memorable sequence of poems. Tim