Sudden In Youth: New and Selected Poems Historical Romance situated on the bleak Yorkshire

situated on the bleak Yorkshire moors

unapologetic voice provides a measure of comfort and a message of perseverance that is at once realistic and indomitable

and he now lives as an attentive

The woman he had loved is a criminal

he staggers back to his old house

Sudden In Youth: New and Selected Poems Historical Romance situated on the bleak YorkshireOut of the mundane, a flash of lyrical. From the profane, a hint of sublime. And always, the inventive wordplay that cuts through the skin of language. Sucking up the marrow of his life, from crisis of faith to divorce, from fatherhood to being, yes, tattooed. Voices of killers and prostitutes. Poems at once intensely personal and universal about love, God and things that matter to the heart. Sudden in Youth: New and Selected Poems brings together the