Folly - Tapa blanda

"A poet of power and skill" - Gerry Cambridge "A book to be relished for its unexpectedness" - Edwin Morgan "I regard Dick Davis's 'Baucis and Philemon' as the great sonnet of my generation, and I hope that in Stocks we are seeing Davis's worthy heir in the making" - Timothy Murphy "Physically vivid, inventive, but controlled by manners of line, breath, cadence and rhyme" - George Szirtes"

Mike Stocks's sonnets range across the messy landscape of human behaviour, pinpointing the fault lines in a direct and striking language. Whether dealing in sly humour, savage loss, or all the tragi-comic states in-between, he invariably finds a perspective that commands the attention. The poems in "Folly", with their assured technique and memorable content, demonstrate that the sonnet is a radical and contemporary form, and constitute a debut collection that readers will remember and revisit.