Night Journey

A hauntingly poetic evocation of English surrealism meeting the Movement style - so empirical wit combines with vividly rendered dreamscapes.

What makes Richard Lambert rare as a poet is the unshowy integrity which percolates

through his poetics. While others camp things up, he keeps them calm and true. There’s no

harrumphing, no ostentation, no display. Night Journey is a memorable, softly dynamic collection.

— Tim Liardet 

One of the great pleasures of reading Richard Lambert’s poems is to find oneself in the presence of a writer who delights in surprising himself. He has the gift of being able to take small details of everyday life and assemble them into configurations that are often at once reassuringly familiar and

challengingly strange. There is also an attractive, lyrical tenderness about his way of looking at the world, kindly but firm and unsentimental, which I find particularly engaging.

— John Mole