To order a copy, please contact the author directly at dvcwins@gmail.com In ‘Breathing’ David Van-Cauter maps out the topography of different losses and absences in finely calibrated poems that are as affecting as they are effective. Van-Cauter has a knack for observing the small details — motorway graffiti, band T-shirts, first-generation iPads — and a gift for adept phrase-making, all…
To order a copy, please contact the author directly at dvcwins@gmail.com In the title poem of this accomplished and often deeply moving collection, David Van-Cauter asks ‘Were we here, or were we only passing through?’ The answer is, of course, both. These poems negotiate shifting landscapes of loss even as they celebrate the firm ground of married love, stretching the…
