The Breakfast Room

The waif-like figure peering from Bonnard's "The Breakfast Room" instils a sense of mystery and marginality in Stewart Conn's title-poem. Among other portents of transience in his latest collection are two briefly glimpsed duck shooters. Responses to music, tinged with warmth and humour, highlight the redeeming power of art. The book concludes with a group of love poems imbued with tenderness and a treasuring of the here and now.

Reviews

• "Characteristically restrained, subtly lyrical and filled with gentle humour, The Breakfast Room is a beautiful and moving collection." Anne Donovan, The Sunday Herald
• "The Breakfast Room is a quiet triumph of poetic elegance and wisdom undercut by wryness with the lightest of touches. This acknowledgement of the human condition, how lucky we are, and how transitory and fragile, is what Stewart Conn does best, and what poetry is all about." Pamela Beasant, The Orcadian