This collection explores a wide range of human experience with understanding and insight. A poem like “Photon” injects the world of particle physics with a human sensibility, while a classically referenced poem such as “Penelope At Dinner” casts a contemporary, if satirical eye, on marriage. Sometimes, in poems such as “No One Told Me I Had A Twin”, a wry humour is present.
Rush’s poems explore significant matters, inviting you to experience their events or emotions imaginatively. With clarity and discipline, the poems lend themselves to portability, providing lines, even whole verses, to remember and savour. Above all, you’ll be reminded that accessibility allied with craft can still surprise and charm.
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“I enjoyed these poems. Many are both wry and profound. Because of their accessibility even readers who normally avoid poetry should find them pleasurable.”
– John Hannaford, reader
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“William Rush takes events and images that we all can recognize and paints wonderful word pictures around them. This is a book to keep on your bedside table to turn to even for a few moments of random reading when you want to go to sleep with a smile on your face.”
– Toni Smith, reader
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“I have enjoyed reading William Rush’s book’Into the World’s Light very much. This is not obscure poetry, though there are layers of meaning that reveal themselves over time. One poem, ‘Warning’, is only four stanzas, but has a lot in it, about the nature of poetry itself (or some poetry). Speaking of poems, he writes:
‘they are delicately shy
avoiding the front pages of newspapers
secreting themselves on low shelves of libraries
dim corners of bookstores’
Nevertheless, the poem concludes
‘they aim to grasp our being
by the heart’
There is a variety of poems in this book, from the lightweight to the profound, but many of them do succeed, I would say, in ‘grasping us by the heart’.”
– Rodney Fielding, reader