The Willy Poems

by David Caddy

At the heart of Caddy’s rural landscape is the outcast, Willy. In these poems, Caddy gives voice and context to a lonely, disheveled and unemployed man that wanders the countryside in search of his identity. With keen precision and great empathy, Caddy explores the heart of a simple, yet troubled, man and his environment. THE WILLY POEMS has been printed in a first edition of 376 copies. The type has been set in 12pt. Goudy Old Style with 14 pt. Goudy Bold Italic Titling. The book includes an insightful introduction by Jonathan Ward and linocuts by Marc Snyder.

46 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2004

About the author

Poet, essayist, critic, literary sociologist and historian. He has edited international literary journal Tears in the Fence since 1984. His most recent book is Cycling After Thomas And The English (Spout Hill Press 2013). He was co-author of London: City of Words (2006), a literary companion, with Westrow Cooper. Most recent books of poems are So Here We Are (Shearsman 2012), The Bunny Poems (Shearsman 2011), Man in Black (Penned in the Margins 2007), and The Willy Poems (Clamp Down Press USA 2004). He has recently published essays on Jeremy Prynne, the Prose Poem, Charles Bukowski, Poetry and walking, David Chaloner and Maurice Merleau-Ponty and William Wordsworth’s ‘The Soltary Reaper’.