Review: If poetry could be soft but heavy at the same time...
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 28, 2014
I read and loved the first book and can say the same for the second. Although it did seem difficult to get into the pace of these poems at first, when I did get into it I was drawn completely into the poet’s world, reminiscent of the first book about the sea and the sky but with an entirely different theme.This book is more complex and philosophical but it is nevertheless vividly painted. The themes are the inevitability of time, self-contemplation and the cycles of birth and death. Unlike the previous book here are not poems to be shared with a lover, but only with the self and this made it all the more personal and interesting.For me it seemed as though words became drawings and worlds as I read through it. There would appear sentences that seemed to pop out at you and make you pause and think, and there was even humour to be found. He addressed time, change and the self from the broader perspective of someone who is at the ‘autumn’ of life.It is quite a brilliant book and my favourite poems were the Tea of Life and the Clocks. While it wouldn’t be fair to say that this book is an improvement over the first, I really liked the inscriptions made by the author which gives a little history about  the poems and make them all the more relevant and understandable. It’s a great read and should be enjoyed by the evening light with a cup of tea, which is what I did.