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Sarah Lawson
Viva Loch Lomond
and his third collection brings all his considerable strengths to poems as accurate and strange as thermal images
' – Fiona BensonÂ
Perception and memory of taste and sound become more heightened as his eyesight fails
The Star in the Branches by James Peake Tony Frazer Sarah LawsonThe Star in the Branches, James Peake's second collection, is an intense and heartfelt examination of memory, how it pains and consoles, deepens and shrinks, is both equal to, and less than, the objects and people who come to reside there. At either end of the book are the disappearances of loved ones: a parent succumbing to dementia, and a school friend lost to more voluntary forms of forgetting. Elsewhere are poems of erotic love, big city
