Death Sentences by Toby Olson John Manson and a nameless place peopled

and a nameless place peopled by the ghosts of dead friends

These are poems which defy categorisation - interweaving the best of page and spoken word poetry to create something entirely of her own

hence this new revised edition which replaces some poems with new or previously undiscovered work (highlighted in the contents list)

most travelled and most translated of all Welsh-language poets

sometimes disturbing and

Death Sentences by Toby Olson John Manson and a nameless place peopledDeath Sentences is Toby Olsons first major collection since Darklight (Shearsman, 2007), and many of the poems herein are addressed to his wife, Miriam, who died, after suffering for years from Alzheimers disease, in 2014. Many of the other poems, typical of Olsons concerns, stand as celebrations of what is observed, without metaphor or other literary devices intervening. The four seriesDeath Sentences, I Dont Know, Disturbed and Etudesare highly