For Crying Out Loud

A revered voice of the South East for many years, Edward Denniston sings forth anew with visionary power and profound honesty. Here in For Crying Out Loud he gives us the youthful taking off of clothes, a sheltering from rain beneath dripping hawthorns; a life lived in close communion with the earth. He is a passionate reader of nature’s handbook. He has spent his entire career searching for the perfect kingfisher of elusive poetry, knowing that poems are as shy and rare as the private life of a riverbank. Like the stibbler without a living, he has been given posterity’s license to preach poetry to bus-routes, cemeteries and places of palliative care. Here, Beckett-like, dissenting, clairvoyant with a reformation honesty, he has uncovered the most marvellous colours from beneath the ‘Sea fog’s voluminous greyghost.’