a vulnerable and luminous sequence of elegies, drawn on a canvas dark and wide as the heavens. At once intimate and cosmic, epiphanies quietly explode along the lines, as each poem attempts to make sense of death, drawing on science and astronomy, in fearlessly personal and numinous poems.
Pascale Petit
In Orbit came crashing through my letterbox like a falling star, vibrant in its intensity and its lyrical promise of hope.
Tori Chamberlain
Each poem becomes a point of illumination in a constellation of grief. The numbness of regret is present in each line, as small human acts and tokens – a fingernail, an ellipse, a closed coffin – are consistently set against the immeasurable emptiness of space.
Mark Pajak
Grief, loss and the haunting power of memory are some of the themes deftly explored in this open and vulnerable collection. A skillful, impassioned dive into both the pain and comforts of nostalgia, In Orbit weaves its ideas into elaborate shape poems, zooming out to behold Venus before closing in on a dead starling, urging us to lean in closer ‘until your mourning makes it fly.
Matthew Haigh
These poems are deep draughts of experience, rendered in a way that nothing in our age of rapid and simplistic judgments can do half as well as poetry.
Philip Gross
These poems are deep draughts of experience, rendered in a way that nothing in our age of rapid and simplistic judgments can do half as well as poetry.
Paul Henry
Glyn Edwards’ first collection has been greatly anticipated by those already familiar with his work. Vertebrae will not disappoint, full as it is of haunting, carefully-crafted poems.
Poetry Wales
"These poems will sharpen your perceptions, refresh your thinking, and open your heart. What more could you want? Welcome a new bright star in poetry."
John Freeman
"Beautifully finely-wrought poems. A collection that adds up to the striking and intense life of one intelligent being."
Martina Evans
"Tender and varied, in touch with the darkness, these are poems to proclaim and sing, to celebrate and cherish."
