The Heavy Bear Who Goes With Me: 100 Classic Poems ed. By Brendan Kennelly and Neil Astley Martha Sprackland Published in an inventive tête-bêche

Published in an inventive tête-bêche edition

'A breathtaking addition to the canon of addiction literature'

This anthology is both thought-provoking and full of warmth and humanity

Raymond Antrobus and Mary Jean Chan

now and later in an eternal present that makes them immediate

The Heavy Bear Who Goes With Me: 100 Classic Poems ed. By Brendan Kennelly and Neil Astley Martha Sprackland Published in an inventive tête-bêcheThe Heavy Bear Who Goes With Me is the ultimate reader's companion to poetry: a selection of 100 classic poems from five centuries with lively "companion" commentaries to go with and illuminate each poem. The heavy bear can be many things which go with the bearer: another self or alter ego, the burden of poetry or art, what weighs us down and makes us do what we don't really want to do as well as what pulls us back to our selves, the animal side which