The Beginning of a Journey by Earl Lovelace Shearsman preoccupied with mortality and sex

preoccupied with mortality and sex and a very unsettling sense of the corporeal

you feel like the triple-bars just lined up in the slot machine window and you laugh or cry out' John Darnielle

I loved Emily Berry's Dear Boy (Faber)

"doors between dimensions' where past selves or lost loves ones may speak to us again: "death is not Saskatchewan' shrugs one encountered soul

The Beginning of a Journey by Earl Lovelace Shearsman preoccupied with mortality and sexPublished 3rd April 2025. This collection draws together poems written by the celebrated Trinidadian novelist Earl Lovelace in his early career. Lovelace has an acute sense of poetry's rhythms, and a real poet's capacity to produce stunning visual aural images.