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Emily Berry’s Dear Boy was described as a ‘blazing debut’
A really strong first collection
which works harder and faster than ordinary speech
They are closely and thrillingly observed from real encounters
to the most recent and highly praised
Ostriches: Ten Poems About My Dad by Jeanette Burton Jay Ramsay Emily Berry’s Dear Boy wasIn this uplifting sequence, poet Jeanette Burton takes us on a lively journey to meet her dad: a man whose passions range from DIY to Only Fools and Horses. There are memories of fractious father daughter driving lessons contrasting with moments of discovery, such as unearthing one of the entertainingly deadpan love letters he wrote in the 1960s while courting his wife to be. The title poem evokes a more recent car journey in which the poets dad is a
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