A Feast of Fools
A Feast of Fools. By Terry Gifford. Blaenau Ffestiniog, UK, Cinnamon Press, 2018.
Who are the fools in our world of climate change? Certainly the author, he admits, in this seriously playful, long-awaited eighth collection. Terry Gifford’s poems wryly celebrate people both joyously at home in their landscapes and slightly uneasy about what is happening around them. The first section, ‘Flights of the Fool’, is culled from fifteen years of travels, geographical and emotional. In the second section the Fool is in his village ...