Lost and Found
Robert Powell’s fourth collection is full of wide-ranging surprise in tone, colour, and subject – from times gone by to the times we’re in, from England and Finland to the troubled Irish Border, from deeply personal recollection of children and childhood to a vision of death stalking arrogant political power. These poems mark him out as one of the finest and most consistent poets working today.
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‘In Robert Powell’s Lost and Found, the world is often dreamlike and the ordinary consistently made strange, reflecting the often surreal events of contemporary living in a world saturated with technology. Meanwhile the past continually invades the present, in poems that are always arresting, full of simultaneously precise and surprising images. There is a beautiful music to Powell’s writing, each poem a “bright song sung.”’ – Hannah Lowe
‘In this latest collection Robert Powell is breaking new ground… Each poem becomes an unrepeatable event which, maybe paradoxically, echoes in the mind like a stone chucked into a deep well. Enjoy these poems and inhabit them, as Powell does.’ – Ian McMillan
About the Author
Robert Powell was born and raised in Ottawa, Canada, and now lives in York. He has worked for many years in the fields of journalism, photography, the arts and urbanism, and is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects.
He has published four collections of poetry, including Harvest of Light (Stone Flower, 2007), All (Valley Press, 2015) and Riverain (Valley Press, 2018) as well as an artist’s book and exhibition, A Small Box of River (2016) in collaboration with artist Jake Attree. He won the 2012 Elmet Prize judged by Kathleen Jamie, was commended in the 2017 National Poetry Competition, and his poems and stories have appeared in Acumen, Dream Catcher, Orbis, The North, The Rialto, and elsewhere in the UK and Canada.
Vital Statistics
Imprint: Valley Press
Edition: First (November 2021)
Paperback ISBN: 9781912436712
Catalogue number: VP0191
Page count: 82
Trim size: 229x152mm
