Heaven by Manuel Vilas Leonard Nolens no poet has paid more

no poet has paid more careful attention to the other consciousnesses with whom we share the planet – and no poet has Jamie’s almost miraculous ability to show us just how the world might look when the human eye ceases to gaze on it

young parenthood

animating a world that is always on the verge of explosion

Guardian [on the third edition of Poems]

called ‘Female Friendship is a Very Complex Thing’

Heaven by Manuel Vilas Leonard Nolens no poet has paid moreManuel Vilas speaks in the voice of bitter experience, experience which seems intent on sending him up. He is a novelist as well as a poet, and his poems tell stories as the speaker moves quixotically across the map and between romances. His instinct for rhythm gives the reader a firm sense of place and tone. Universal in their concerns, taking in love and the end of love, life and the end of life, the poems are also resolutely Spanish in how they