Description
Tony Connor’s tenth collection is framed by military encounters. In the first poem a young man grapples with a malfunctioning machine-gun, while the author grapples with the poem he is making from this event, memory or fantasy. In the surrealistic sequence that ends the book, a strange army invades a country collapsing into societal and semantic dissolution. Connor’s abiding preoccupations continue into his eighties: his own life and the lives around him, passing time and its traps, poetry and its transfiguration of the commonplace. Yet all is not solemn as Connor extends his range into comic verse and dramatic dialogue. His new poems mix fantasy and reality in unexpected ways, always with the unobtrusive hand of a skilled craftsman.
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats 
Jack and the Flumflum Tree 
Blue Horses 
The Bone Flowers 
Will Burns 
Is This a Poem?: What makes a poem, and how YOU can write one 
States of Happiness 
The Last Poems of Jules Laforgue 
Isn't Forever 
Swansea Automatic 
Steep Tea 
Then Come Back 
Funny Ha-Ha, Funny Peculiar: A Book of Strange and Comic Poems