Death Sentences by Toby Olson John Manson This new edition retains the

This new edition retains the original Peter Hay illustrations

sometimes disturbing and

experienced horror and icy

These are poems which defy categorisation - interweaving the best of page and spoken word poetry to create something entirely of her own

he unwittingly connects the centuries

Death Sentences by Toby Olson John Manson This new edition retains theDeath Sentences is Toby Olsons first major collection since Darklight (Shearsman, 2007), and many of the poems herein are addressed to his wife, Miriam, who died, after suffering for years from Alzheimers disease, in 2014. Many of the other poems, typical of Olsons concerns, stand as celebrations of what is observed, without metaphor or other literary devices intervening. The four seriesDeath Sentences, I Dont Know, Disturbed and Etudesare highly