Genesis

In Genesis John Powell Ward develops the distinctive style that made 1993's A Certain Marvellous Thing the recipient of rapturous reviews.

A highly wrought and polished technique that places emphasis on the letters of the alphabet in the construction of stanza patterns and rhymes contrasts with emotive and topical themes. Poems like 'Once' and 'Nature' not only record the beauties of landscape, but question our fraught relations with the environment. Time, its potential and its depredations...