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Paul Groves's first volume confirms the promise which has marked him out as one of the most engaging poetic voices of recent years. Crystalline, deft, and exhilaratingly ironic, these poems deserve a wide audience. Those who are not already familiar with Paul Groves's well-crafted verse will not be disappointed by this intelligent, original, and accomplished debut, which delights as much through its energy as through its precision."At his best, Groves can be compelling and funny, and he is adept at underscoring conventional full-rhyming stanzas with a deadpan diction." Conor O'Callaghan, Times Literary SupplementPaul Groves was brought up in Wales, to which he has returned after living for twenty-five years in the Forest of Dean. He has been strikingly successful in national and international competitions and has published poetry and criticism in a wide range of periodicals, including The London Magazine, Poetry Review and The Times Literary Supplement. He lives in Monmouth.
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"Paul Groves is a deft storyteller, genial ironist, and brilliant portraitist. His poems are superb." William Oxley"Groves's style is distinctive, owing something to Larkin, not only in its politically incorrect manner and determination to call a spade a spade, but in a certain incredulousness at human fate."John Greening"When people have asked who they should read in recent British poetry I've said Paul Groves."Grevel LindopThis fresh collection contains not only the type of ironic, sly, and coolly witty poems we have come to expect from this writer (the unlikely drama of a 'Convention of Russian Undertakers', the horrors of a party of 'Greenland Literati', two unexpectedly refined fitters in 'Against Stereotype') but also material with quirky turns and melancholic hints, such as the surreal and oddly moving 'Fly in a Hospital' and the elegiac 'Falling off the Chrysler Building'. Elsewhere he allows himself playful flourishes, as in 'Between Baroque and a Hard Place', a paean to putty. The family, rather than being a source of solace, becomes a venue for humiliation, adultery, sadism, even murder as in 'Strewth', where the annoying spouse is seen off in a deserving manner. Formally acute, frequently funny, and often provocative, this book will delight existing fans and recruit many new ones.Paul Groves is a Creative Writing lecturer, and reviews for leading literary periodicals. He has read widely at festivals and worked in schools and colleges for over three decades. Qwerty is his fifth volume of verse, following the critically acclaimed collections Academe (1988), Menage à Trois (1995), Eros and Thanatos (1999), and Wowsers (2002), as well as a memoir, Country Boy. He has been strikingly successful in national and international competitions, and has twice won the prestigious TLS poetry prize.