WIlfred JOhn

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"PERHAPS" 'Extremely powerful and varied ...Wilfred John has both the clarity for the reader and the mastery of language to say what he means in a way that makes the brain tingle with both shock and pleasure ... This collection is outstanding' "Wilfred John’s Poetry smoulders and blazes. Take your deepest breath, and go with him. In which history and geography are co-opted in effortless interplay. It’s a work of synthesis, and of poetic and emotional maturity, in which Wilfred John emerges as a true craftsman, a supple and graceful thinker with an effortless grasp of line, at the heart of the Poetic lyric tradition'. DR.LATICIA BERTHOLT 'Wilfred John has turned his formidable energies and skills to poetry with turbulent and successful results'. MS. SALMI SATHIARTHY “Wild with imagination, unafraid, ambitious, inventive, stitched to perfection by a formal genius that recalls the quirkily perfect forms (and tones) of Wilfred John’s poem is a perpetual motion machine in which time, history, matter, and a profound tenderness for the made world knot, rush, pleat, unfurl.... What embroidery, what a flawless understanding of gravity. There is not a poem in this collection that does not amaze. As with Worth—and worthy of being its successor—this is a work of profound daring, written by a spirit deeply aware of the ultimate cost of beauty, and the endless human thirst for, and dependence upon, surfaces—historical, lyric, material, and emotional.” DR.POULINA LOPEZ