The Blue Armchair by John Froy Jean Watkins Nine Arches Press launched their

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Winston Plowes

' – Jessica Traynor

haunted by violence and apparently doomed to return to it – yet resolved to find kindness again

These are poems that strikingly reach out: ‘Please won’t you be my neighbour

The Blue Armchair by John Froy Jean Watkins Nine Arches Press launched theirIn The Blue Armchair, his third collection, John Froy seeks to rediscover his mother after her death in poems widely and wildly various. But which mother? The inspiring painter he hardly saw, a reckless mother he saw too much of? Or an ill, unhappy woman? These complications provide the background, but others too often take centre stage. We meet father, siblings, step parents, a grandmother and a tragic grandfather, lovers and friends. In poems