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By: Kevin Graham
Publisher: The Gallery Press
Published: September 2025
Pages: 88
Categories: Literature, Poetry
Language: English
Available as: Paperback
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ISBN-13: 9781911338956

Many of the poems in Time's Guest, Kevin Graham’s second collection, find themselves outdoors — in woods, along the coast, down alleyways — by turns praising the natural world and mourning its evidential ruin. Time is the throughline and its paradox is uncompromising — ‘we shake the hand / of time and face an unbreakable fact’ (‘Walking Home Drunk from The 1975’). Elsewhere, music and art inform jubilant lyrics that meditate on luminaries from J M Synge, Jack B Yeats and J M W Turner to The Frames, The War on Drugs and My Bloody Valentine. The central sequence ‘The Company of Trees’ plays with the language of ecology and literary history while ‘Easter 2024’ riffs on W B Yeats’s ‘Easter 1916’ for the modern era. Rooted in the everyday and the otherworldly — both formal and free — these are poems that yearn for company and to be read and re-read. Kevin Graham's first collection, The Lookout Post, won the 2024 Southword Debut Poetry Collection Award.

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