The poems are clever and revealing. -- Laurie Boucke, author of 'the Undutchables'
What a treat reading these poems. -- Inez van Eijk, Dutch author and anthologist
Product Description
"Under the Low Grey Sky" is a collection of poems that deals with the loves and lives of suburban people: commuters and shopkeepers, hookers and office clerks, doctors, lawyers and bankers. The poems are set in Thixstead and Mokeham, Crackland, Axmer and Upcow, places that are instantly recognizable to worldwide suburbia, transcending their undoubted physical Dutch reality.
Land and people, even life itself, are bland. Peace and tranquillity are rare. But true love is found between the office blocks and man-made lakes. Its story is told in a classically beautiful sonnet cycle.
Thomas Nicholas' poetry scans and rhymes, mostly. In this collection he shows himself a master of traditional poetic forms, although he does include some fine examples of free verse. Thomas Nicholas' poetry is tragic and funny, instantly accessible, yet deeply layered.
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