“This is a funny, sad, yet uplifting account of how we live and love. Poems by a formidable poet, pulling no punches, yet with a delightful lightness of touch.
Domestic bliss is here, with moments of tenderness and beauty, hopelessness too, and a deep urge to engage. How can we live together? Why do we need to? What compels us?
These poems made me laugh out loud, though their acuity is sobering. We’ll all glimpse ourselves in them. Marked by meticulous diction and vibrant imagery, this is poetry with an authentic voice.” Neil Rollinson
A Bluebottle in Late October is very particular and very human.
ISBN: 978-1-9161096-0-5
72 pages
R.R.P. £10.99
A sample poem from A Bluebottle in Late October can be enjoyed below.
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Making Up
At the mirror, she takes a step back,
like an artist changing places
for a different angle, absorbed
not in herself
but in the portrait’s subject, dabbing
pigment over each cheek, circling
with the tip of her pinkie to reveal
unseen depths.
He’d never seen his mother in her,
but now he’s like the boy who watched
the woman in the strapless dress, lips kissed
with Rouge Noir, hurrying
downstairs to the street, bowing
into a waiting taxi. He’d peer
between the curtains, noticing
the eagerness in her pace,
not knowing what it meant,
though he knew she loved to dance,
and that the Polish captain
who gave him that red fire engine
was not his father’s friend.
REVIEWS
"John Wheway’s brilliant debut collection, A Blue Bottle in Late October, is ambitious; a mini saga with a compelling narrative arc, told through a series of short, self contained lyrics grouped into three ‘acts’, with plenty of drama and action and memorable characters. An ordinary, everyday tragedy, made extraordinary by the telling of it. [...]
"This collection has the heart and narrative scope of a novella, elevated into something special by the poet’s eye. Just open at random and enjoy [...]"
Alison Woodhouse, The High Window, full review here
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