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The Fetch
Gregory Leadbetter's first full collection of poems, The Fetch, brings together poems that reach through language to the mystery of our being, giving voice to silence and darkness, illuminating the unseen. With their own rich alchemy, these poems combine the sensuous and the numinous, the lyric and the mythic.
Ranging from invocation to elegy, from ghost poems to science fiction, Leadbetter conjures and quickens the wild and the weird. His poems bring to life a theatre of awakenings and apprehensions, of births and becoming, of the natural and the transnatural, where life and death meet. Powerful, imaginative, and precisely realised, The Fetch is also poignant and humane – animated by love, alive with the forces of renewal.
'The Fetch is a terrific, precise and dazzling collection. The whole book exemplifies a poetry of being that shows what is possible when we allow ourselves to be fully human in our perception and poetry.' – David Morley
Ranging from invocation to elegy, from ghost poems to science fiction, Leadbetter conjures and quickens the wild and the weird. His poems bring to life a theatre of awakenings and apprehensions, of births and becoming, of the natural and the transnatural, where life and death meet. Powerful, imaginative, and precisely realised, The Fetch is also poignant and humane – animated by love, alive with the forces of renewal.
'The Fetch is a terrific, precise and dazzling collection. The whole book exemplifies a poetry of being that shows what is possible when we allow ourselves to be fully human in our perception and poetry.' – David Morley
- GenresPoetry
87 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 1, 2016
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July 27, 2018
Rubery Prize Shortlisted 2018
A lovely collection of thoughtful, intelligent poems with some old forms - sonnets and a villanelle - while others are more free. They are wide ranging in subject and style with recurring themes of the supernatural and the almost-there. Moving effortlessly from poems about death to poems about baby monitors, he encompasses the full range of life’s spectrum, teasing out meanings with insight, subtlety, and, above all, authenticity. At the heart of the collection is the beautiful elegy for a beloved father, Dendrites and Axons, where the pain of loss is rendered with the power and poignancy that characterises the book as a whole. Here, as elsewhere, he manages and articulates emotion in ways that enable empathy, and, not least, huge admiration.
A lovely collection of thoughtful, intelligent poems with some old forms - sonnets and a villanelle - while others are more free. They are wide ranging in subject and style with recurring themes of the supernatural and the almost-there. Moving effortlessly from poems about death to poems about baby monitors, he encompasses the full range of life’s spectrum, teasing out meanings with insight, subtlety, and, above all, authenticity. At the heart of the collection is the beautiful elegy for a beloved father, Dendrites and Axons, where the pain of loss is rendered with the power and poignancy that characterises the book as a whole. Here, as elsewhere, he manages and articulates emotion in ways that enable empathy, and, not least, huge admiration.
March 17, 2024
Beautifully haunted.
February 23, 2017
Delicious.
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