Ralf Webb Rotten Days in Late Summer Paperback Book

A TELEGRAPH AND IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARLONGLISTED FOR THE POLARI FIRST BOOK PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE JOHN POLLARD FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL POETRY PRIZE Impressive . . . tender, unflinching GuardianThis is poetry in the grand tradition of annihiliation by desire. Its what the young are always learning, and the old, if they are wise, never forget Anne Boyer, author of The UndyingBrilliant . . . heralds the arrival of a frank and vital poetic voice Sharlene Teo, author of PontiFrank and alert . . . an important voice in British poetry Eley Williams, author of The Liars DictionaryDirect and heartbreaking Alex Dimitrov, author of Love and Other PoemsA rare thing . . . razorsharp Julia Copus, author of This Rare Spirit A Life of Charlotte MewIn Rotten Days in Late Summer, Ralf Webb turns poetry to an examination of the textures of class, youth, adulthood and death in the working communities of the West Country, from mobile home parks, boyish factory workers and saleswomen kept on the road for days at a time, to the yearnings of young love and the complexities of masculinity. Alongside individual poems, three sequences predominate a series of Love Stories, charting a course through the dreams, lies and saltbaked limbs of multiple relationships Diagnostics, which tells the story of the death from cancer of the poets father and Treetops, a virtuosic long poem weaving together grief and mental health struggles in an... | Ralf Webb Rotten Days in Late Summer Paperback Book