Love's Loose Ends

David Tait

£5

978-1-906613-35-8

David Tait was born in 1985 and grew up in Lancaster. He is a founder of the Leeds Independent Presses Poetry Festival (LIPPFest) and is currently ‘House Poet’ at Manchester Royal Exchange for the Carol Ann Duffy & Friends Poetry Series. He edits for The Cadaverine.

‘Careful and concise poems, like glimpsed scenes and small, intense dramas, full of knowing detail and telling lines. Tender but shrewd.’ — Simon Armitage

‘There’s a kind of ‘tough love’ at work in these poems – a lyrical, romantic yearning shot through with the poet’s clear eye and wry humour. I think of them as tiny, poised narratives of lost words, remembered places and the unravelling of love. This is a memorable, assured collection – I’m certain David Tait is one to watch.’ — Amanda Dalton

'an impressive debut, a sequence of clever love poems, smoothly poised between the extravagant and the real in perfect observations of love and loss like ‘Elsewhere’ and ‘Cory and the Winter’.' — Andy Croft, Morning Star

'Utterly intimate, utterly unembarrassing, everything pulls together, not a word is wasted. Almost the whole pamphlet reaches this standard, with tacit passion and emotional complexity. Tait's dry voice in informed by imaginative pressure and urgency. Love's Loose Ends is one i'll be going back to' — Lachlan Mackinnon, Poetry Review

'I’m seldom as immediately smitten as I have been by the poems in this slim chapbook' — Eleanor Livingstone [Read more]