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What We Do Well
by Geoffrey Heptonstall
65 Poems ~ 82 pages Price: $15:00
Publisher: Cyberwit
ISBN #: 9788 119 228188
To Order: Amazon or Barnes and Noble
ABOUT THE BOOK:
Words without music may be words in search of music. The new collection by Geoffrey Heptonstall displays a widening of his poetic landscapes, and experiments in technique. There are themes and styles that speak of deeper explorations into language and a variety of meanings. He travels through the Caribbean, Ireland and China. There is homage to Marlowe and Shakespeare, as well as Hemingway and Berryman. The rhythms of the sea are never far away. Then there is memory at play with dreams.
ADVANCE PRAISE:
“You may find something delightfully theatrical and classically elegant about Geoffrey’s verse, while also acknowledging his admiration for Lawrence Ferlinghetti and John Berryman.”
–Jeff Kalissm Poetry Editor of Mill Valley Review
“His poems reference classical literature, classical music and art. They show the writer is aware of the craft of language, sound and rhythms”
– Emma Lee in the Blue Nib
“Exceptional poetic capability.”
–Alan Morrison in the Recusant
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Geoffrey Heptonstall is widely published internationally as a poet, writer of fiction, and essayist. He was for several years a regular reviewer for The London Magazine, Britain’s oldest literary paper. He is the author of four previous collections, a novel, a novella, and a number of play texts. His broadcast work includes The Upstart Crow for BBC Radio 3. He lives in Cambridge, England.
FROM THE BOOK:
In a Viennese Café, 1938
by Goeffrey Heptonstall
Shadows cast in the morning light,
flicker on the window pane,
the trees swaying with the news
carried from the borderlands.
Urchins make faces, but are ignored.
An entering patron ushers them away.
The doctor’s coffee cools
as he reads of the signs of storm
when all minds will be in conflict,
and a wound in the soul opens.
Escape and exile approach
as deftly as sycamore seeds.
A dog barks in the street,
causing a horse to rear.
A woman with a basket screams,
and an old man utters a curse.
The doctor views the scene with concern.
In a pocket his passport is secure.
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