The Land of Give and Take Laura Watkinson Andrew Motion

Andrew Motion

translated by Jo Catling and others

and kissed her

It was a time when "children did not have open access to the world of adults and childhood had not yet disappeared"

Manchester in 1982

The Land of Give and Take Laura Watkinson Andrew MotionIn The Land of Give and Take, Tyler Farrells second collection of poems, a variety of characters appear as on a stage: teenagers and grandparents, priests and poets, the wise and the foolish. Shadowing many of the poems is a conflicted Catholicism, sometimes resentful of the Churchs claims, but recognising that, in the end, nothing else gives the same weight and meaning to this transient life. There is morning and night to see through their eyes.