Jeremy Robson Livres

Witty and fond, original and compelling, The Heartless Traffic is a book about change and regret, politics and jazz, love and loss, as Robson looks at a world under threat and listens to the 'the heartless traffic / in its endless race to God knows where.'

Poems that take us into a world that is both contemporary and timeless. Many are personal, others evoke scenes from an earlier era, and some draw on the Jewish experience.

Full of enticing anecdotes culled from a fifty-year career, this is an engrossing book that provides an insider's view of the changing world of publishing. Jeremy Robson has published an extraordinary range of household names; writers, poets, actors, singers, sports people, cartoonists, newspaper columnists and politicians. .

Written with characteristic craft and wit, many of the poems in Chagall's Moon reflect the changed world in which we find ourselves, as rockets rain nightly on Ukrainian cities, refugees drown in the channel, and post-Brexit chaos reigns. Chagall's Moon movingly creates a world of love and loss, identity and laughter, dreams and nightmares, where Beethoven and Picasso rub shoulders with Billie Holiday, Chagall's lovers still fly in a cloudless sky, the ghosts and horrors of recent Jewish history are never far away, friendship and childhood memories still stir, and love presides