Publisher's Synopsis
Time Pieces is Paul Henry's debut collection of poems. Clear-eyed, compassionate, and concerned, he writes movingly about members of his family and community.
We meet the brisk, arrogant 'Bigwig', the fragile, elderly 'Audrey in Autumn', along with grandparents, window cleaners, buskers, children, farmers, factory workers, cousins and others. These poems reveal how one is heir to many influences in Wales, and explores the tensions between rural and urban, tourist and local, material and spiritual lives. Many of these themes come together in his fine five-part poem 'Rep', a look, by turns comic and tragic, at the life of a modern salesman.
In contrast to the mere wordplay of many modern poets, Paul Henry's poems are sensitive, humane, and involved in the people and landscapes that surround him.
"Paul Henry's poetry is sensitively attuned to ultimate realities in the domestic mode... a poet well worth keeping an eye on"
Book News from Wales
"A rewarding debut"
The Independent on Sunday
Paul Henry was born in Aberystwyth in 1959. He currently lives in Gwent with his wife and three sons. Originally a singer-songwriter, he combines freelance writing with working as a Careers Adviser. In 1989 he received an Eric Gregory Award.
