Women as Tender

Humphrey Astley is founder and editor of rainoverbouville.co.uk, now in its fourth year. He was born in Oxford, England in 1982. “Breathing is an unthinking reflex, until you draw a breath and find you can’t. Human contact can induce a similar sensation of having thought hijacked by primal reactions that can bring a moment to its clearest point. This is Humphrey Astley’s poetry.” http://blackheartmagazine.com/index2.php?p=story&id=186 “The verbal content is phenomenally well-handled. People say that they hone poems a long time; generally speaking one wonders why. Humphrey however does the same thing and does it to good purpose. His works do what other poems purport to do.” http://mourningabortion.blogspot.com/