• The poems touch on themes of sickness, palliative care, how we cope, and the relationships between parents and children, drawing on Bennett’s experience as a parent to an autistic child as well as his work in the hospitals - The perspectives in the poems shift between the personal, the imagined, and the political - Bennett’s artistry lies in his ability to create poems that shatter complacency with bricks of loaded language

Quill & Quire on Civil and Civic