Texere by Gerald Frape

ISBN: 978-0-6457328-3-2 (pbk) 2024 POETRY
ISBN: 978-0-6457328-4-9 (hbk)

Texere is a selection of twenty years of existential observations on love, death, life, place and impermanence.

‘In this impressive collection Gerald Frape’s sharp intellect and passionate concern for a wide range of issues and experience, both public and private, are expressed in poems that exhibit a unique mix of intensity and playfulness. The meditative, the lyrical, the urgently searching – even a hint of rap – it’s all here. In a tour de force of exploratory wordplay, notes of lament and accusation and humour accumulate and weave together. ‘Texere’ is a Latin word – ‘to weave or construct with elaborate care’. Texere is a beautifully appropriate title for this engrossing book.’  Ross Gillett

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