Dinosaur Point

In the eighties Paul Mills and his family lived in California, and travelled round the Western United States. Some years after their return he began a new life with his children as a single parent.

Certain moments, hardly noticed at the time, on reflection seem to have had direct designs on the future. They open up perspectives, emotional as well as physical, into a new space.

These poems revisit and dramatise these experiences, which fly up like fragments from an underground explosion, from a place which offered no sign.

An impressive voice with a distinctive authority and range — Michael Schmidt

Ambitious and wide ranging — TLS