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Book SynopsisHenry Normal's Collected Poems, Volume Two includes all of the poems from This Phantom Breath, The Department of Lost Wishes and Swallowing the Entire Ocean. The poems in This Phantom Breath are concerned with love, death, truth and other inconvenient distractions. The Department of Lost Wishes contains more than one hundred poems selected by the author from his early works. The poems in Swallowing the Entire Ocean are concerned with the search for meaning and identity, and other foolhardy adventures.
Trade Review"Takes the familiar and sublimely reshapes it ... Marvellous." The Independent ; "The funniest man you've never heard of." The Telegraph ; "Idiosyncratic and effortlessly funny." Radio Times ; "Dovetails bittersweet poetry with a sublimely observant wit." The Guardian ; "Warm, accessible and never wantonly oblique, but deep beyond measure." Northern Soul ; "Painfully funny ... tender and touching." Write Out Loud ; "The Alan Bennett of poetry." The Scotsman ; "Distinctly funny." Time Out
