Fr Meslier’s Confession

ISBN-13: 978-1906856298

Published by Oversteps Books 2012

This extraordinary book is dramatic in ways that are theatrical, cinematic and operatic. Vividly atmospheric, combining suspenseful narrative drive with a theological and philosophical gravitas that is never portentous or pretentious, this extraordinary book is dramatic in ways that are theatrical, cinematic and operatic... Fr Meslier’s Confession could also be exulted in as an historical novel in verse. And what verse! The variety and virtuosity of the forms deployed is as intrinsically bravura as it is intuitively and humanly apt ... These poems enlarge our conception of what a poetry collection can be; of what it is to transcend bad times through good faith; of what it is to be redeemed by the very act of refusing salvation

Donny O’Rourke

Reviews:

“The writing is vividly atmospheric, combining suspenseful narrative drive with a theological and philosophical gravitas that is never portentous or pretentious.” – Donny O’Rourke

“A collection that should be on every shelf alongside that old gardener Voltaire” – Sam Smith in The Journal

“As a sequence this is a quite a major achievement” – Sally Evans in Northwords Now

“I feel thankful for her honouring a theme so pertinent, so cohesive, that has opened a window onto the soul … of a man long lost to the world, yet, thanks to her, with a voice as lively as if he spoke here, now.” – Gutter