Seahouses

By: Richard Barnett

Narrated by: Richard Barnett

Seahouses is the first collection of poetry from cultural historian Richard Barnett. Those familiar with Barnett’s non-fiction will be unsurprised to discover he is also a formidable poet, with a distinctly English approach that is at once fluid, precise, cynical, and tender.

Not a single word in this volume is wasted; least of all in the award-winning title sequence, where the sea sifts and rolls through the dreams of an old man asleep in a deckchair, conjuring a vision of history, and our human crossings. Elsewhere, fragments of first love are glimpsed, pursued, and interrogated; fathers sit down to eat with the sons they have killed; two textbooks sing three songs of suppressed longing; bees are kept for all the wrong reasons.

This is low modernism of the highest order, cranky, eloquent, and broken-hearted - a terrific addition to the UK’s poetry landscape.

©2015 Richard Barnett (P)2021 Richard Barnett

A Most Beautifully Spoken, escape

as soneone who was looking for breathtaking poetry, i feel i have truly found it in these poems. i get the sense that the author has really put their soul into the pages as well as their voice in the audiobook. i also think that more people should read these words and get into immersion reading, because it really works to follow along as being read to. it is an amazing expierence, at keast for me. loved every word.