Lifelines

Lifelines

2009

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A lively and versatile poet, Duncan Forbes can deal with life’s events in modes both comic and tragic. With his eye for detail and strong understanding of traditions, he approaches the enduring themes of poetry in fresh and contemporary ways.

‘His work offer[s] painterly observation, humour, emotional honesty and lively effects of sound, wordplay and metre.’
– Sarah Johnson in Literature Online

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LATEST BOOK

LATEST BOOK

Under the Sun takes up where Human Time (2020) left off. This new collecton contains poems on a variety of subjects and in various moods and modes. Once again, humour is mixed with sadness and free verse with formal poetry. There are delicate poems about nature and yet human concerns remain very much to the fore.

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