No Through Road

David Sutton follows in the tradition of the English lyric: crisp, clearly realised and displaying a belief in the idea of poetry as a craft, the poems revel in a kind of wry understatement which masks an inner emotional intensity.

His first collection since the well-received New and Selected Poems 1965-2005, No Through Road sees the poet returning to his chosen territory of the quotidian where real things - love, loss, regret, age, sickness and death - happen. A poet of landscape, Sutton's lyricism also embraces passionately the modern world as we know it.

The poems of No Through Road are instantly recognisable as being of the living tradition of Thomas Hardy, Edward Thomas and Philip Larkin. Immensely readable, they show a poet still very much in his prime.

About the author:

David Sutton was born in Hemel Hempstead in 1944. He was educated at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He worked as a computer programmer before retirement. Over a writing career spanning nearly fifty years he has had six individual volumes of poetry published. His New and Selected Poems 1965-2005 (2005) was published by Peterloo Poets. Sutton is married with three sons and one daughter. He lives in South Oxfordshire.

48  pages

ISBN: 978-1-906075-77-4