Cover of The Light Forecast

The Light Forecast

Published by Original Plus.
ISBN 0954680111.  Cover price £8

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“These poems are like water.  They splash from risk to risk, exuberant, graceful, wayward, irrepressible.  Head-over-heels in love with words, Paul Lee draws vitality from the source.  He can make a sparkling delight of almost nothing—or plummet as deep as it goes….” Helena Nelson, winner Aldeburgh-Jerwood Prize

“There is a kind of playful confidence here which makes one sit up and notice.  The writing has great physicality, intellectual vigour and technical versatility, with Lee always pushing the imagination one step further in the expression of his ideas.  Forceful poems of social and political observation, and quiet poems of domestic tenderness are all within his wide range.  A distinctive, contemporary voice, engaged and aware.”  Julie Lumsden, former editor of Poetry Nottingham International

“The delight in Paul Lee’s work lies in the three facts that he slips by reader resistance so easily and then finds the exact words and vision to convey the poem’s meaning, seemingly without fuss or effort.  For me his work has those literary qualities I aspire to.  He is, to use two tired, but apt clichés, a true ‘wordsmith’ and a ‘voice’.”  Martin Holroyd, editor Poetry Monthly.