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Bedside Days - Gospage, Stephen
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A collection which begins with a description of a man?s slow (indeed, apparently endless) decline may suggest that Bedside Days offers a bleak outlook on life. However, by the end of the sixty poems in this book, readers should have sampled all aspects of the human condition: its sadness and foibles, certainly, but also its capacity for creating beauty and doing good. Overall, the writer has sought to give the collection a positive, even optimistic, tone. War and dystopian futures are present, but humour is never too far away. Whether they refer to actors struggling to play corpses, a soldier…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
A collection which begins with a description of a man?s slow (indeed, apparently endless) decline may suggest that Bedside Days offers a bleak outlook on life. However, by the end of the sixty poems in this book, readers should have sampled all aspects of the human condition: its sadness and foibles, certainly, but also its capacity for creating beauty and doing good. Overall, the writer has sought to give the collection a positive, even optimistic, tone. War and dystopian futures are present, but humour is never too far away. Whether they refer to actors struggling to play corpses, a soldier confronted by a painting of a battle he had taken part in, the noise of a distant train through a window, a man who once aced a pre-war tennis champion or to the exultant, incomparable pleasures of love, the poems are first and foremost intended to be enjoyed.
Autorenporträt
Stephen Gospage, a writer of poetry and short stories, was born in London in 1953 and spent most of his working life in Brussels. Now retired, he lives in Belgium, close to Waterloo. He has dual British and Belgian nationality and is proud to call himself a citizen of Europe. Several of his poems have appeared in the New European newspaper and he is a regular contributor to the Write Out Loud poetry blog. In 2022, he published a collection of poems entitled The Shape of Ukraine and contributed to Poetry Performance's anthology Poems for Ukraine. In early 2023, he brought out a short pamphlet called Snowdrops, featuring new poems on the Ukraine war, and in 2024 Two Years On, a new pamphlet on the ongoing conflict.