Sound Houses

Eaves Will

Will Eaves' first book of poems explores several continents, moods and stages of life. Common experience – of growing up, growing older, losing a parent, being in love, enjoying the natural world in all its nearness and remoteness – provides his themes. Wherever they are set, in the Australian bush or in a West Country sickroom, the poems keep faith with the consolations that come from close observation and stillness. Well-loved authors and books appear suddenly; hair-raising anecdotes and football matches become occasions for elegiac comedy; music and domestic ritual raise ghosts.

Both formal and informal, funny and sad, these lyrical poems seek out a strangeness in the everyday: in the transformational territory of childhood and the equally uncertain adult world of grief and loss.

About the Author

Will Eaves was born in Bath in 1967. He is the author of three novels, "The Oversight" (2001), "Nothing To Be Afraid Of" (2005) and "This Is Paradise" (2012, forthcoming), all published by Picador. His chapbook of poems, "Small Hours", appeared in 2006. "Sound Houses" is his first full collection. For many years he was the Arts Editor of "The Times Literary Supplement". He now teaches at the University of Warwick.

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