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‘You only make one real journey / the rest are just rehearsals,’ so writes Roger Bloor in his second full collection Mapping Broken Roads. With generosity and vulnerability, the poet examines and records the fine details of such rehearsals, the triumphs and (sometimes comic) failures. These poems occupy a landscape which encompasses both what can be said and those complexities of human life which language cannot or (its speaker) chooses not to quite pin down. Rather than offering lessons or neat resolutions; they wander, double back, lose their way and return for a second look. The ideas and feelings they express to their reader are open-hearted, brave and exquisitely tender.
~ Vanessa Lampert
An exploration of trauma, memory and love, Broken Roads presents a poetic cartography of the “uncharted, insecure landscape” of the self. These poems speak of intimacy, loss, and the search for belonging: “sometimes loose threads / can catch / and draw you back”. Formally inventive and deeply human, the collection offers a map through trauma’s disorientation. This is poetry of departures, reckonings, and fragile returns.
~ Vasiliki Albedo
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