Notions by John Kelly Books her poetry and prose together

her poetry and prose together produced an aphoristic and incomparably quotable style

librettist

Clamor was the first book of poetry to win Britain’s Dylan Thomas Prize

introduced by Booker Prize-winning author John Berger

his selected poems

Notions by John Kelly Books her poetry and prose togetherConstantly inventive and unerringly precise, the poems in John Kellys debut collection reveal an author at home with both the stand alone lyric and the longer, apparently improvisational pieces that contribute so much to this books extraordinary brio and style. The breadth of cultural reference is perhaps a given, but Kellys real achievement is to make sense of a sometimes teeming field of vision. From the natural world to the troubled north of his