The Garden of Forgetting Jonathan Wilson David Cavanagh's second collection

David Cavanagh's second collection

It features work by Itzik Manger

The front cover painting is by Moroccan painter and novelist Mahi Binebine

Cab Calloway and Lionel Hampton

Hinrich von Haaren – 'Slow Tree of Joy'

The Garden of Forgetting Jonathan Wilson David Cavanagh's second collectionAt the core of this collection are poems that chart the attempt to come to terms with the life shattering loss of two relationships: father and husband. They explore with a great exactness the connections between inner feelings and the physical context for those feelings: the Jamaican landscape, and the promptings of external phenomena to memory. They sip the brine of loss: proof that I have lived. Though in one sense Gwyneth Barber Wood writes