and a nameless place peopled by the ghosts of dead friends
Andrew Wynn Owen
most travelled and most translated of all Welsh-language poets
he unwittingly connects the centuries
Her poetry draws its sonorous and plangent music from the landscapes of Finland
Death Sentences by Toby Olson John Manson and a nameless place peopledDeath Sentences is Toby Olsons first major collection since Darklight (Shearsman, 2007), and many of the poems herein are addressed to his wife, Miriam, who died, after suffering for years from Alzheimers disease, in 2014. Many of the other poems, typical of Olsons concerns, stand as celebrations of what is observed, without metaphor or other literary devices intervening. The four seriesDeath Sentences, I Dont Know, Disturbed and Etudesare highly