Late Gifts by Richard Price Jonathan Cape the domestic detail becomes touchingly

the domestic detail becomes touchingly relevant to us all

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Late Gifts by Richard Price Jonathan Cape the domestic detail becomes touchinglyLate Gifts is a joyful and anxious book. The eponymous late gift, this book's occasion, is a son, born to a middle aged father. How does this change his sense of present and future, of time itself? The poet focuses on this demanding and joyful relationship in terms that are funny and re energising, his world renewed. The child's future makes more urgent environmental and politics themes that have long been a concern for the poet. Price, a versatile