John Lavan

Familial: Selected Poems

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One of the internet’s most prominent poets, John Lavan, presents a new book of collected poems. John’s distinctive voice, enjoyed by his hundreds of thousands of blog and Twitter followers, carries effortlessly from the personal to the pastoral. Many poems are inspired by family relationships, especially the bond he has with his first son Andrew, who has Down’s syndrome. There are also poems on love, our time, a series of haiku, and even poems on poetry among this collection of more than 100 hilarious, thoughtful and heart-breaking works.
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46 printed pages
Publication year
2013
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Quotes

  • Annahas quoted9 years ago
    We look up at the same sky; a sky that’s always changing.
  • Annahas quoted9 years ago
    Bright Star Love’s not bright and constant but only cheese on toast; a little glance, returning nod, a cup of tea, a smile, a nudge and sometimes, like a closing door, it needs a push before it turns and groans and opens to the garden. Another thing: the gaps between the cheese, the tea, the toast and sunny laughter - also matter - because it’s there, right there, that we remember to remember. And do, indeed, remember.

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