A History of Western Music: Poems by August Kleinzahler Tony Frazer Lyonesse is a place of

Lyonesse is a place of paradox

If I were living in the time before writing

Fear and destruction take root in a community of women when the Witchfinder General comes to town

His friend Edwin Morgan admired his 'sparkling poems full of sensuous richness and linguistic inventiveness'

A History of Western Music: Poems by August Kleinzahler Tony Frazer Lyonesse is a place ofAs the title suggests, Father's Father's Father, is concerned with, among of things, an investigation of masculinity and family histories, the legacies of the past and the long shadow of the future. This finds expression through various modes, voices and cultural figures (such as private detectives, professional wrestlers and bodybuilders) but always in a poetic style that resists narrative completion and instead makes the reader question the desire