Then the War: And Selected Poems 2007-2020 by Carl Philips David Wheatley Cuckoo is very sensory and

Cuckoo is very sensory and very spacious

The present volume of nearly 300 poems seeks to redress the balance

  But Askew has a capacious eye

The collection invites the reader to reflect on loneliness

Then the War: And Selected Poems 2007-2020 by Carl Philips David Wheatley Cuckoo is very sensory andThen the War and Selected Poems, 20072020 is two books in one: a representative selection from seven of Carl Phillips's innovative earlier collections and a complete new book of poems, providing a powerful introduction to European readers. A seemingly gentle but resolute attention to the things of this world evokes the joyful and painful elements in the contemporary human condition, characterised by loneliness and an unquenchable thirst for love. He