Bøger af Ray Holmes

In his debut collection Lookaftering, Ray Holmes writes about the many relationships we form as young people that shape us into the adults we eventually become. His poems take readers through landscapes both familiar and metaphorical in order to revisit those family dynamics, friendships, and loves that have such strong bearing on the way a person sees their world.

Padraig O'Leary sets off on a journey to Scotland with his young family hoping to find a new start in a community with long traditional ties with his homeland - Ireland. A few miles south of Berwick-on-Tweed he is stopped for speeding by a Police Traffic Unit. The brief encounter with Sgt. Eric Burstow is explosive and ends with 17 people killed and hundreds injured and places Padraig on a learning curve with no ending