On Trust: A Book of Lies by James Womack James Womack It is an adventure of

It is an adventure of discovery and disillusionment

which became Britain’s most popular poetry book because it gave readers hundreds of thoughtful and passionate poems about living in the modern world

accumulating its various feelings

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On Trust: A Book of Lies by James Womack James Womack It is an adventure ofOn Trust: A Book of Lies, James Womacks second collection of poems, is organised around the notion of telling the truth. Working against ideas of poetry as a vehicle for displaying individual truths or unprocessed confessions, these poems play hilariously, earnestly, undecidedly, with such simple identifications as the I of a poem with the I of the poet, offering us monologues which seem to be sincere, unvarnished accounts of things that have really