' Billy Collins is one of my favourite poets in the world' Carol Ann Duffy Readers will only have to open this book at random to realize the privation a life without Billy Collins has been. A writer of immense grace & humanity Billy Collins shows how the great forces of history & nature converge on the tiniest details of our lives
- & in doing so presents them in a new radiance. He is also unbelievably funny. ' The most popular poet in America' New York Times ' Billy Collins writes lovely poems.. . Limpid gently & consistently startling more serious than they seem they describe all the worlds that are & were & some others besides' John Updike ' Billy Collins' medium is a rare amalgam of accessibility & intelligence. I'd follow this man's mind anywhere. Expect to be surprised' Michael Donaghy ' Smart his strings tuned & resonant his wonderful eye looping over the things events & ideas of the world rueful playful warm voiced easy to love' E. Annie Proulx