The Trouble with Poetry is the new collection from probably the
most popular poet in the entire planet, and finds everyone's
favourite contemporary Pre-Socratic in as funny and wise (and
sometimes joyfully silly) form as ever. Billy Collins's tone is
inimitable. Drawled and knowing, yet without a hint of
world-weariness or cynicism, he fearlessly addresses the reader as
friend and intimate -- and comrade, inviting them to square up to
the various collective crises of the bald ape in the 21st century.
Collins remains the only poet who can write about the
next-to-nothing of our lives, the little boredoms, habits and
frustrations of our daily and domestic existence, revealing their
true importance and meaning -- and demonstrating that the same
historical and cosmic forces bear upon them as upon the great
events of the age. 'Billy Collins is one of my favourite poets in
the world' Carol Ann Duffy 'I'd follow this man's mind anywhere'
Michael Donaghy 'Billy Collins's poems describe all the worlds that
are and were and some others besides' John Updike
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