Boy Thing by John W. Clarke Philip Terry These are poems of pain

These are poems of pain

in the sequence of poems that reflect on the meanings of the Grenfell Tower fire

explorers and palaeontologists

—Tim Wright

Boy Thing by John W. Clarke Philip Terry These are poems of pain"Boy Thing is a thing of wonder. These are poems that negotiate anew the tender, hurt territory of a boy abruptly unfathered with every fresh reading; and that travel into the wonderment of becoming a father of boys. We are given a boy's eye view of 1970s Cornwall with a music and detail so meticulous that we yearn with Clarke for its lost territories. But these are not just poems of archive or archaeology; they are revelatory, dynamic and raw. Clarke