Both Brittle and Beautiful

In carefully poised language, these poems explore three interwoven themes: the passage of time, travel and the world that surrounds us. John Trotman journeys from childhood to fatherhood (sometimes on the same page) and shares a life’s experience made richer through a sense of place as acute in dark corners of London as in the sunlit uplands of New Zealand. Throughout it all is a keen sense of texture, of objects animate and inanimate, and of the brittle, transient beauty of the moment.