Comments on other works by Ric Hool:

 

Personal Archaeology

‘I really like how these poems carry so many specific references, places and lived experiences. It all comes together in letting the poem have its way. That’s the hard work isn’t it. I’m guessing drafts are worked on intensely. In poetry the most personal is also what is most readily shared. That is confirmed here, and there’s delight in the achievement.’

 

—Kelvin Corcoran

 

 

A Way of Falling Upwards

‘That wonder can be encountered in the most commonplace procedures of the natural world might not be news. But it is perhaps a truth that must be relearned, daily, against the stream of our habitual perceptions, if one is to profit at all from such knowledge. Many of the poems in Hool’s collection provide us with useful tools for just such a task.’

 

—Gavin Goodwin

 

 

What the Sand Didn’t Tell the Moon

‘Ric Hool looks closely at the world he confronts and comes to an understanding of how he relates to that world and how the different aspects of that world relate to each other. On the back cover of this compelling new collection of short tales we read a defiant and clear assertion stating that “We are carriers of stories; apostles of our unpredictable lives; advocates of adventures and liberators of moments spent in the company of wolves and doves”.’

 

—Ian Brinton

 

 

Islands

‘“The possibility of the ordinary becoming fantastic lit my mind.’ Ric Hool’s Islands continues to be the backdrop to his thoughts and ideas. These manifest themselves in his poetry and writing being, ‘islands of thought on paper”.’

 

—BBC Wales Art

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