Light Breaks

Robert Wilkinson, author of Raining Quinces, now brings out his second poetry collection, Light Breaks. Once more he tempers a pervading sense of bittersweet yearning with irony and humour. There's a resigned realism within these pages, but an irrepressible romance too. You'll find a medley of poetic styles - from the haiku and the limerick to the villanelle and the cut-up. A book for today, you might say: knowing, parodic, postmodern - yet serious in its search for epiphanic truth.Reviewer...