Seraph Press has lots of exciting projects coming up this year, but the first one off the block is this little beauty - Two Lagoons, the debut chapbook of Trevor Hayes.
I've just realised that the first poem in the book, 'Cartography', is the first poem I ever heard Trevor read - at the Poetry Society, at the Thistle Inn, which is kind of perfect because the Thistle Inn is where we're going to be having the launch - more details about that very soon (but save the evening of 8 June)!
Despite its small size, the poems in this chapbook have a lot of variety - lots of colours, tones, locations. I'm thrilled to find such lyrical gems as:
I’m grasping at straws here. Blind
from birth I have never seen
the grand chandelier, only heard
comments guests make as they enter
the ballroom. ('Peruvian Light')
alongside the absurd, such as: 'What a pleasure / to sit in the fire with strange trousers on.' ('Paroemiology')
I've enjoyed Trevor's work whenever I've come across it, and am delighted to be putting some more of it out into the world.
Read more about Two Lagoons
I've just realised that the first poem in the book, 'Cartography', is the first poem I ever heard Trevor read - at the Poetry Society, at the Thistle Inn, which is kind of perfect because the Thistle Inn is where we're going to be having the launch - more details about that very soon (but save the evening of 8 June)!
Despite its small size, the poems in this chapbook have a lot of variety - lots of colours, tones, locations. I'm thrilled to find such lyrical gems as:
I’m grasping at straws here. Blind
from birth I have never seen
the grand chandelier, only heard
comments guests make as they enter
the ballroom. ('Peruvian Light')
alongside the absurd, such as: 'What a pleasure / to sit in the fire with strange trousers on.' ('Paroemiology')
I've enjoyed Trevor's work whenever I've come across it, and am delighted to be putting some more of it out into the world.
Read more about Two Lagoons
