Tony Connor Livres

Exploring themes of memory and imagination, this collection of poems captures the essence of childhood experiences in a 1930s Manchester working-class neighborhood. Tony Connor draws on his own past, blending recollections with inventive storytelling to evoke the sights and sounds of his formative years. Through vivid imagery and emotional depth, he invites readers to reflect on the universal aspects of growing up, making the poems both personal and relatable.

Tony Connors tenth collection is framed by military encounters. In the first poem a young man grapples with a malfunctioning machine-gun, while the author grapples with the poem he is making from this event, memory or fantasy. In the surrealistic sequence that ends the book, a strange army invades a country collapsing into societal and semantic ...