Wise as Water by Jeremy Loynes

Jeremy Loynes' second short collection is in three parts which are not as easily separated as their themes might suggest "youth; the poet's mother; the view from maturity " for from his consistent inner self Jeremy Loynes can re-visit the magic space-time of childhood in the "splayed open pages" of a 'Dear book', rejoice in Nature wherever he's living, and endorse enduring human values that he absorbed early on. In contrast, City life is purely 'Money land', "calibrated", with even every handshake weighed against its financial worth. Sometimes in poetry it takes bravery such as we find in these poems, to express complex thoughts simply - and to hold a rhyme heart-close.' Belinda Singleton