Publisher's Synopsis
This first collection of sharply-focused poems is prepared to go to the "wilder shores of Martian poetry". The poems include ambiguous celebrations of Columbus and a new pair of reading glasses, an affectionate evocation of Tommy Cooper, an elegy for Philip Larkin, and a poem in praise of the stoic virtues - in the voice of a garden gnome.;Robert Hull has been a schoolteacher and has written two books about teaching - especially the teaching of poetry. This collection is a University of Sussex Ralph Lewis Award winner.
