Growing with the Shadows: Poems

Many times, Fenech is a man bordering on the grim reaper's realm, yet also a concerned environmentalist worried about the relentless action of his fellow men against nature and the conservation of places, as well as the lost values, both material and spiritual. He shows himself to the world as a down-to-earth time traveler who seeks peace and an escape valve in his naturalistic, soaring poetry that I now compare to his own simile in one of his Tanka poems, Waves "like a brandished scimitar".I was enraptured by Fenech ´s poems because he took me on a time traveling experience at roller-coaster speed. A cursory read of the book would lead any impromptu reader to want to separate some poems from others but after you read them all, you realize that it cannot be done: the poems stand and flare on their own right as a necessary and sweeping monolithic comet. They belong with each other, and with the author. Each seems to have been carved with Fenech ´s blood, entrails and experiences of a sensitive poet slit by what he sees and feels, and his need to display things as they are, crude and raw, presenting characters and events as they happened.

• | Author: Raymond Fenech
• | Publisher: Adelaide Books
• | Publication Date: May 08, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 250 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1732074283
• | ISBN-13: 9781732074286