Sentimental Engines (Paperback)

Paperback. There is an artist's hand behind these poems - pigment-stained, patient, unwilling to look away. Sentimental Engines moves between the plainspoken and the incantatory, between grief observed at close range and grief that arrives disguised as a young man on the side of the road. This collection returns again and again to the same quiet questions: what we make when we can't say the thing directly, what we carry from a house we no longer live in, and what it costs to stay present when the mind keeps drifting toward absence. Some poems here are as brief and exact as a breath held in cold air. Others build into dense, sound-driven passages that resist easy paraphrase - reminders that some experiences don't want to be translated, only witnessed. Together they form a portrait not of a single event, but of a mind returning, obsessively and tenderly, to the material of its own life: art, weather, memory, and the dead who don't quite leave. Sentimental Engines is for readers who find comfort in poems that don't resolve their grief so much as sit beside it - a book for anyone who has ever driven past a cemetery and felt the whole conversation change. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…