Bøger af Terry Dammery

You are lost, your parents missing among the ruins and she gives you shelter in a house above a deserted beach, where your traumas heal and life begins. Feral, bound only by nature's laws, the beach and its waters are yours, and for all your formative years you play, think and dream away the days on an empty shoreline. 'Waterlines' is about those years, when you were making sense of yourself and the world around you, - the sea seminal, a metaphor for almost everything.

Like the lyrics of a favourite song, they sang in the sunshine, laughed every day and each night told their stories to the moon. They had fun and talked to the rhythm of a garden swing about happiness and birdsong, blossom and all. Dad's Doodles are the notes of a father caring for his daughters as they go skipping through the days, leaving footprints in the dew, jewels in their dreams and thoughts that look like poems.

Letters to Jocasta is a bitter-sweet account of bereavement, a child for its mother, six decades after they parted on a Tilbury dockside - a damaged but unbroken bond revealed in poems about love, grief and guilt.

Pieces of Shrapnel is the poetry of film noir. There are search-lights in the sky and darkness below, the city is a bomb-site and he thinks his mother is his sister. It is poetry from the rubble, from the wastelands of a war where the protagonists don't even survive the peace - the poetry of collateral damage.

A poem