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The Point of Loss

The Point of Loss

by JohnMole (Author), JohnMole (Author)

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    Paperback 2011

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Synopsis

John Mole's new collection relishes and celebrates a variety of occasions where the private and the public intersect. Personal memories are explored with a sharpness which avoids sentimentality while the seriousness of many of his subjects is addressed with a blend of affection, sardonic humour and a characteristic lightness of touch. Several of the poems owe much to his involvement with music and the visual arts, particularly jazz and film, but rather than providing a diversion they contribute to a way of looking at the world which strengthens the unity of the collection as a whole.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 80
 Publisher: Enitharmon Press
Published: 31 Aug 2011
ISBN 10: 1907587047
ISBN 13: 9781907587047

Media Reviews
'His needle-sharp feeling for language feeds both his humour and his seriousness. Often, he seems to push us gently into understanding that the most serious things may also be the lightest and slightest. This gives his poetry an unusual grace and lack of self-regard. Again and again this theme recurs, wrapped in one subject or another: how do we live with the brevity of our lives, and the way that what we make will disappear? Perhaps it's Mole's realism which makes him, in the end, such a consoling poet.' HELEN DUNMORE: Poetry Review
Author Bio
John Mole was born in 1941 in Taunton and now lives in Hertfordshire where for many years he taught in secondary schools and ran The Mandeville Press with Peter Scupham. Recipient of the Gregory and Cholmondeley Awards for poetry, and the Signal Award for his writing for children, he is currently resident poet to the City of London as part of the Poet in the City project. He has also published a collection of his review essays as Passing Judgements and written the libretto for Alban, a community opera which received its premiere in St Albans Abbey in the spring of 2009.