Love, Death and Bad Behaviour

A celebration in Verse

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Footsteps Press

Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 14, 2014

Language ‏ : ‎ English

Print length ‏ : ‎ 134 pages

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1908867280

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1908867285

Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 5.9 ounces

Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.83 x 0.29 x8.27 inches

Jonathon Coudrille’s style is unique and he uses the full range of the English language introducing words the Bard himself may have had to seek out in a dictionary

The author uses our language in all its richness and colour to pull every emotional string. “I’m Hungry!”, cried Adam, is a parody of the biblical story of the Garden of Eden while The Damnation Files enable us to laugh at the professions most commonly the butt of jokes, from accountants and architects to journalists and lawyers. I had to wipe away a tear when I read “My mother loved my father”, as there was so much in there with which I could identify. Something, I guess, about parents who grew up twixt the Great Wars that we rarely see today.

Illustrated by the author himself, each image well worth the price of the whole book, and with introductory prefaces to the various sections, this is a book I shall treasure, along with Jonathon Coudrille’s other works.

THREE SKIES

SKY ONE

Bright dappled waters

Bird pierced

Pieced with sunlight

Blue for life, fortuity –

Enamelled winter sky

High and clear

SKY TWO

Ice marbled waters

Frost laced

East of daylight

White for death, for purity

A blanket-shrouded sky

Dim and near

SKY THREE

Deep silent waters

Rain-dark

Greased with streetlight

Black for pain, maturity.

I cannot see the sky.

You’re not here.