Parallels : : Selected Poems of René Dee and Chris Yates.

• Author: Dee, René.
• TeilnehmendeR: Yates, Chris.
• Place / Publishing House: London : : Conrad Press, The,, 2021.; {copy}2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (112 pages)

This remarkable collection of poetry by two friends whose work is in some way similar, but also refreshingly different, focuses on ten primary themes that engagingly highlight and make eternally memorable, experiences that are common to many people, but rarely as well written as this. The phrase, 'True wit is Nature to advantage dress'd / What oft was thought but ne'er so well express'd', applies very poignantly to this collection._x000D__x000D_René and Chris served in the Intelligence Corps and met in a now redundant army camp in 1965. Their friendship has endured for more than fifty-six years, sustained even over the thirty-five years when Chris lived in Australia and René travelled the world. They collaborated on this book to select poems that depict their lives. The poems stir the emotions of, for example, adventure, love, family and nation. They can provoke, they often amuse. René and Chris hope you enjoy them.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Introduction -- Why this book? -- About René -- About Chris -- Acknowledgements -- Fear -- Suddenly -- Waiting for Terror -- Conversations in the Wilderness -- Why Can't They See? -- Nightmare in Narnia? -- All Words Mean Something -- Five Minutes to Ten -- Whose Business? -- Time -- The Run -- Now Boys Again -- Going Nowhere Fast -- Paging Miss Chia -- Jogging a Kowloon Promenade -- Two Late -- War -- With God on Our Side -- 21st Century Paradox -- Brambles in the Hedgerows -- Wellington's Injunction -- Footprints -- Followers of the Fox's Path -- And Did Those Feet…? -- The Big Walk -- Messages from Under Foot -- Snow Simile -- Natter -- South Downs Way -- Roots -- Sepia -- Graffiti Bandits! -- This England -- 73 Whitepit Lane -- Parallax -- Loving Old Wisdens -- Treadmills -- Train Opus -- Scrap Heap Blues -- Courage at the End of the Conference -- Waiting for Roy -- The Train -- Love -- The Initiation -- Unspoken.