VotiveTurning on the drawn out thread of a relationship in freefall, the poems in Votive, the skilful and seductive second collection by Keiran Goddard, are small prayers uttered out of an ambiguous faith. They are dreams, visions, and hallucinations; the body is made a bonsai tree, the sea hisses into the spaces between the lines, the voice speaks invocations to the minute. These poems are granular things that flow freely when touched. Unapologetically

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He has published work in a wide variety of journals and anthologies and has won a Welsh Arts Council Prize for Literature

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Deryn Rees-Jones was educated at the University of Wales

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