Foundry Songs by Dean Rhetoric YA His new poems about war

His new poems about war and the Holocaust speak to our own dark times

about Ravel’s interaction with Paul Wittgenstein over the Piano Concerto for the Left Hand

Whether her subject is feminism

there is a keenness of wit that penetrates to the heart of things

“only a loved one could take these photographs” and that feeling also pervades in her poetic letters and on every turn of the page of this lovely

Foundry Songs by Dean Rhetoric YA His new poems about warDean Rhetorics Foundry Songs examines shame, grief, lust and loss through the emotional upheaval of a troubled adolescence pitted against a post industrial backdrop. Both gritty and lyrical, Rhetoric combines cutting wit with poignant descriptions of trauma. The poems grapple with God and working class identity, envisioning a world where posh pelicans laugh at seagulls choking on chips, workers on strike protest Richard Curtis and tumours tumble out