Tell it Like it Might Be celebrates - but also questions - the value of the human imagination. It is the source of grand designs and idle fancies, a key to empathy, tenderness and vision, utopia and desire. It can nourish faith, hope, mystery and love. But imagination has other functions too, spinning webs of private fears and public deceit, guilt and blame, the easy lie and the terrible falsehood. These poems are miniature studies in illusion and delusion, false memories, lovers' deceptions and lying dossiers endorsing war. But beware of scepticism: sometimes the implausible is also true.
"This is vigorous, wide-ranging poetry, at home with large human and political issues, with love and loss, and with tensions between faith and doubt. The poems are carefully crafted, subtly musical, and reflect intensely observed and imagined encounters. A book to be welcomed and savoured."
Peter Bennet
"This collection covers a wide range: from devotional poems, which work "like the repetition of small prayers" through poetry of domestic incident and its coil of emotion, to sharp political satire, and occasional stanzas of surrealism that make the reader jump. Impressive!"
Donald Atkinson
Michael Bartholomew-Biggs lives in London and works as a mathematician at the University of Hertfordshire. His previous chapbook collections include Anglicised by Common Use, Inklings of Complicity and Uneasy Relations.
Tell it Like it Might Be, by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs
ISBN 978-0-9954028-4-5
Price: £7.95
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