Between New Year and Old

BETWEEN NEW YEAR AND OLD
by Roger Philip Dennis     
ISBN 978-0-9545474-4-8   
Published 2024 by Wylde Publications.
64 poems     97 pages

A collection of new work by poet, artist, and Poetry Society National Competition Winner 2014 Roger Philip Dennis.

Which moves from the boat people of today to orphans in Ancient Greece, from ’50’s Teddy-boys to red shoes and Sidhe abductions beneath magic hills; fictitious figures of Arthurian legend wander into the 21st century or sit alongside historical leaders and saints; the outer regions of intergalactic space meet sub-atomic dance; where the biodiversity of an oak tree relates to the memory of a passer by.

A fox gets his chance to reply to the renowned poet Charles Causley. An old man is ostracised from a city and murder is committed in a lighthouse. Catkins are golden in hillside hedges and romance is remembered -– or in the air; chocolate is eaten by a river; lovers wake up to spiders and hot porridge.

And much more:

….was it ….
too many borders crossed?  
 That we wait here
deep in oak and ash and sycamore, this nowhere, 
lacking passport from Old Year to New?

from the poem In Gawain’s Footsteps