'Technically virtuosic yet direct and sensual' 'Bold as love... Each word is to be savoured like a sip of forbidden wine.' ‘John Siddique's new collection takes the reader down the street and round the world. This is a brave and a bold book of linked poems whose subjects range widely from love to hate, from war to peace, from childhood to adulthood, from the real world to the world of myth. Siddique is interested in everything. Tender and open-hearted, these poems are full of wonder at the power of love. Dreamy and yet direct, this is Siddique's most powerful collection yet.’ ‘In this beautiful new collection John Siddique seduces the reader with his life-affirming reflections on our mortality and a profoundly moving poetic interplay of tenderness, love and eroticism.’ Full Blood is John Siddique's fourth full-length collection of poems for adults. Erotic, physical, completely open and fully engaged with the moral urgency of life, Siddique tackles his themes robustly and yet with great sensitivity, constantly defining and reimagining what it is to be a man in today's world, living fully in the moment. Marking a serious development in the writer's work (as well as the mind of this significant British poet) this is Siddique's most emotionally-charged work to date. THIRST Imagine thirst without knowing water. Some things are unthinkable, Some things we assume just are as they are, It is fear that eats the heart: fear and Fold away your beautiful thoughts. Imagine believing in the whispers, THIRST
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'Bold as love... Each word is to be savoured like a sip of forbidden wine.' isbn 9781844718245 Also on Kindle Read: A short interview about how John writes, and the sensuous nature of Full Blood
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