Queries on Death, the Infinite and Irrational Numbers - John Stammers Pages:64 pages`Beneath the sharp social satire lurks a psychological insight, a sensitivity to a profound cultural inheritance' The TimesIn 2023 the Forward Prize winning poet John Stammers was struck by a sudden and life threatening health crisis which brought him to the verge of death. By some miracle he survived and was able to return to the poems he had been writing which now, inevitably, took a darker turn. Queries on Death, the Infinite and Irrational Numbers
are two of his best-known works of electrifying political fiction
stories untold
he helps the Party and the omnipresent Big Brother control the people of Oceania
they find themselves in the firing line
and one of the most appealing: few other poets have introduced as many new readers to poetry
Arrays of drained and discarded entities - empty bottles
brilliantly told' - ROBERT ELMS`HEARTFELT AND PERSONAL' Soldier MagazineFollow military memorabilia and medal specialist Mark Smith in his enthralling journey to tell the story of his own father's warSunday evenings wouldn't be the same without Mark Smith on Antiques Roadshow
When she strikes up a friendship with glamorous fellow intern Rose
The story of respectable Dr Jekyll's strange association with 'damnable young man' Edward Hyde
Now she's single
It is about how short a life is and how the choices we make can ripple down generations
Great work