“Less”

Less – Ian Gouge

In this, Ian Gouge’s eleventh collection of poetry, “less” is characterised by absence: of love, of money, of understanding, and of life. We are exposed — on occasion brutally — to an experience of the world which is seldom what we would wish it to be.

facts evaporate under a microscope
if its lenses are looked through
with the eye that’s always closed

– from ‘a question of honesty’