The Cat Without E-mail

Résumé du livre

Alan Brownjohn's welcome new collection is his tenth collection and his first since the much praised In the Cruel, Arcade (1994). The variety of theme and mood, impressive technical command and characteristic element of surprise -- this is a writer whose work can never be taken for granted -- ensure that this new book will enhance an already considerable reputation. In these poems he revisits his childhood and adolescence as a 1930s and wartime child, reflects wistfully on romantic adventures and unrealized ambitions, entertains with surreal dreams, sends up Sherlock Holmes, and along the way humorously surveys avalanche dogs, a bug and a mosquito, and inevitably a cat without e-mail. Brownjohn's other works include the novels The Way You Tell Them and The Long Shadows.