A Book of Odes by Alan Baker Sarajevo Roses – Ian Patterson

– Ian Patterson

How can humour help us survive hardship

where space makes the isolated dwelling into an illusory distant city ruled by its family and their laws

Approaching the polemic or the existential with a gentle touch

as in ‘Y Bydd’

A Book of Odes by Alan Baker Sarajevo Roses – Ian Patterson"A Book of Odes is a joy to read because Baker is so adroit at speaking of many things at the same time that we never lose sight of any of them, and not only that, they are important things, whether its the lives of natural things in our unnatural world, and vice versa, or those unnatural things themselves, which in the end turn out to be natural, too, since what else can they be, theres only one place for everything to be happening, which at times