Monsoon Diary by Joseph Woods John Gallas ‘Crafted

‘Crafted

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Derek Slade contributed substantially to composing the notes on sources and earlier appearances of the works gathered here

‘His special skill is comedy

There is loss and struggle here: the pain of miscarriage

Monsoon Diary by Joseph Woods John Gallas ‘CraftedBetween the birth of the poets daughter and the deaths of his parents, the poems in Monsoon Diary attempt to make sense of the world, from a mid life flight from home en famille to new perspectives on both the past and the future. Monsoon Diary strikes an often elegiac tone, betraying a growing awareness of mortality and the many losses that come with age. But it also bears witness to a country transitioning from dictatorship to democracy, finds the