Benchwarmers, Nigel Kent's latest pamphlet, gives a voice to those who live their lives at the margins, such as the autistic boy, the looked-after child, the young offender, the anorexic, the painfully shy. They are life's outsiders, whom circumstances have conspired against: they are the also-rans, the subs confined to the bench, waiting for the call that never comes. These poignant, compassionate poems make visible the invisible and invite the reader to make a connection. *** "Nigel Kent's poems in this collection ...
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Benchwarmers, Nigel Kent's latest pamphlet, gives a voice to those who live their lives at the margins, such as the autistic boy, the looked-after child, the young offender, the anorexic, the painfully shy. They are life's outsiders, whom circumstances have conspired against: they are the also-rans, the subs confined to the bench, waiting for the call that never comes. These poignant, compassionate poems make visible the invisible and invite the reader to make a connection. *** "Nigel Kent's poems in this collection, skillfully sketch out the lives of the dispossessed; those who '...lost life's toss the moment they were born.' His poetry vividly captures the feelings of loss and exclusion experienced by the disenfranchised child, and offers us a sobering insight into how our society fails many young people for so many reasons. In his prose poem, Cut , Nigel Kent sets the sharpest rebuke: portraying the brutalizing effects of ostracism in the psyche of young minds, 'I leave my mark carve my initials in entitlement's bark with the blade they made.' A chilling yet haunting pamphlet of poems." Josephine Lay, author of 'A Quietus' "It's a recognisable feature of Nigel Kent's earlier collections that many of his poems notice and care about people on the margins of society, and this is also central to Benchwarmers . Through these poems Kent allows us a glimpse not only of the constraints, misunderstandings and sometimes cruelty his subjects face but also, in some cases, of how through their own empowered actions, and/or the love and attention some receive, they can - as two of the poems suggests - either 'speed away' or find their 'own way home'." Phil Vernon, Author of Poetry after Auschwitz I and Watching the Moon Landing "Nigel Kent takes the reader on a powerful and poignant journey with each turn of the page. Benchwarmers is a superb poetry collection. Highly recommended." Patricia M Osborne, Poet/Novelist "Powerful and unflinching. Compulsively readable. Defines class divides with sensitivity and dynamism." Paul Brookes , poet, editor of The Wombwell Rainbow
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