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Tom French’s fourth collection, The Way to Work (2016), continues to explore the territory he has been making his own since his astonishing 2001 debut, Touching the Bones.

The usual French hallmarks, seriousness, sincerity, family, the past, rural Ireland, are very much present and correct.

Jonathan Edwards, Poetry School Tom French’s fifth book of poems, The Last Straw, reveals an ever quickening sense of what a poem might be, and do. With its capacity to move his readers and listeners and to register ordinary moments in a luminous glow, it’s no wonder his work attracts an ever growing host of admirers.

‘In this collection, when I’m not witnessing maimings and getting electrocuted on building sites, I’m eavesdropping on bridge painters, hanging around public houses, and failing abysmally to leave behind me the bog I knew. I appear to be trying to get to the bottom of what I learned there. 

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ISBN/EAN 9781911337348
Author Tom French
Publisher Gallery Press
Publication date 15 Feb 2018
Format Paperback
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The Last Straw

Whatever coasts I find myself on offer some small relief. Spare a thought for me, staying out of the sun, reading, channel surfing, counting the days until the flight home.

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