An Essex Lad

<p></p><p>In a poignant and captivating collection of sixty-three poems Mark Powell pays homage to A. E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad transposing it to his native Essex. Exploring similar themes that define Housman's seminal work - such as memory myth longing and mortality -- Powell presents his own insight into unrequited love the dreamlike nature of youth the implacability of nostalgia and the agony of loss. </p><p></p>