Here on Earth

by Jeffrey Wainwright

We are still here on earth. With a troubled sense of wonder, Jeffrey Wainwright's new book witnesses to that earth's ordinariness, profusion and mystery. The collection begins with his beginning, a poem that evokes his own birth: 'Here I Come'. He concludes inevitably with 'Here I Go'. In between are poems that describe and contemplate on the variety of life, ranging from a fleeing mouse to geology and gravity. History features, as so often in his...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1800172753
• ISBN13: 9781800172753
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: Carcanet Press
• Length: 88 Pages