The Echo and the Breath
Publisher: Peterloo Poets
Published: May 31, 2001
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 66
ISBN-13: 9781871471861
Subjects: Works by individual poets: from c 1900 -
Description: The first full collection from Gary Bills.  One of the poems, "A Love Affair in Miniature", appeared as a "Saturday Poem" in The Guardian. The author gave a reading at the 2002 Ledbury Poetry Poetry Festival and  at The Poetry on the Lake Festival, Lake Orta, Italy, the same year.
On the strength of this collection, the Liverpool Poet Brian Patten called Gary Bills "a genuine new voice that stands out from the crowded world of British Poetry".