Between New Year And Old by Roger Philip Dennis

Poetry of imagination and insight.

Between New Year And Old is Roger's first solo poetry collection. It offers a rich tapestry of our times and lives, a mingling of inner and outer, of the personal, cultural, and historical. Where outer space and sub-atomic dance meet, where the biodiversity of an oak tree is seen as both busy ephemerality and rock-solid endurance. We move from the boat people of today to orphans in Ancient Greece, from ’50’s Teddy-boys to red shoes and Sidhe abductions beneath magic hills; fictitious figures of Arthurian legend wander into the 21st century or sit alongside historical leaders and saints.

A fox gets his chance to reply to the renowned poet Charles Causley, and elsewhere Dennis recounts a family tragedy from his early years, or responds to recent bereavements. An old man is ostracised from a city and murder is committed in a lighthouse. Catkins are golden in hillside hedges and romance is remembered -– or in the air; chocolate is eaten by a river; lovers wake up to spiders and hot porridge. And much more.