Hugh Underhill, FOUND WANTING

“Nothing is more mysterious than the real,” wrote the Italian painter Giorgio Morandi. For Hugh Underhill, poetry is the pursuit of the real, a constant struggle against distortion, an act of commitment against the world’s disarray. His heroes are Bunyan, Blake, Bloomfield, Edward Thomas and Ivor Gurney. These poems are rooted in England but qualified by complicated feelings about place and belonging. They are shaped by the belief that a poem should be a made thing, an act of craftsmanship. And they are based upon the Nonconformist belief that living acquires meaning through commitment and choice.

Paperback £7.95 ISBN 978-0-9554028-5-2

Mike Bartholomew-Biggs TELL IT LIKE IT MIGHT BE

Tell It Like It Might Be celebrates and questions the value of the human imagination. It is the source of grand designs and idle fancies, a key to empathy, tenderness and vision, utopia and desire. It can nourish faith, hope, mystery and love. But imagination has other functions too, spinning webs of private fears and public deceit, guilt and blame, the easy lie and the terrible falsehood. These poems are miniature studies in illusion and delusion, false memories, lovers’ deceptions and lying dossiers endorsing war. But beware of scepticism: sometimes the implausible is also true.

Paperback £7.95 ISBN 978-0-9554028-4-5

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