Twenty-Five Poems

Humphrey Astley was born in Oxford, England in 1982. He is founder and curator of the ongoing exhibition Rain Over Bouville (.co.uk), from which these twenty-five poems have been selected. This is his first collection. From Black Heart Magazine's review of 'Twenty-Five Poems': "Thank the swirling chaos for Humphrey Astley. His poems are elegant, classical, but certainly not the kinds of things we run screaming from in our English Literature classes. He understands the concepts of rhythm and metre and the manipulation of sounds. In Twenty-Five Poems he conjures up lovely images of moonlight and co-eds and perverts, and none of his poems ever dare to wrap onto a second page. They are precisely contained worlds, and no matter how melancholy, they always stress the sentiment that life is somehow beautiful." (http://blackheartmagazine.com/index2.php?p=story&id=76)