These Nights at Home by Alex Reed Suzannah Evans Fernando Torres is a latter-day

Fernando Torres is a latter-day Icarus

and everyday miracles on the other

In Playing the Octopus

that a man writes of the world outside while a woman will turn to the interior

and his last two collections were Poetry Book Society Recommendations

These Nights at Home by Alex Reed Suzannah Evans Fernando Torres is a latter-dayThese nights at home, which follows on from Alex Reeds earlier V. Press pamphlet A Career in Accompaniment, is very personal, and yet very familiar. This longer pamphlet voices the loneliness and isolation that follow bereavement, and the predicament of trying to begin anew. Moments of tenderness, flashback, longing and love flicker through the mind and heart as the months pass. The poems are accompanied by Keren Bannings striking series of