The Brittle Sea Anne Lauppe-Dunbar illustrator and author

illustrator and author

the fight for an identity

Firmly established with Keith Douglas as the leading writer of the Second World War

while Poetry Ireland Review lauded "a very well-crafted body of work

where wit is tinged with tragedy and vice versa

The Brittle Sea Anne Lauppe-Dunbar illustrator and authorFor two decades Paul Henry has been quietly building an oeuvre of beautifully crafted poems. Born into a family of musicians, music pervades his poems on childhood, as do a large cast of aunts, neighbours, friends and relations, many of whom appear in Dylan Thomas like character sketches. Some of his earliest portrait poems are set against the Breconshire villages where Henry lived from his mid teens; a move south to Newport inspires poems about the