42

Description

Forty-two main poems. Six waves of seven. A collection built around a number that may contain every answer, countless mysteries, or nothing at all.

42 moves through working life, nature, faith, memory, humour and the everyday absurd. False walls, car parks, pigeons, seagulls, trees and beetles sit beside questions of identity, purpose and the unseen patterns beneath ordinary experience.

Writing as The Poet Badger, Daniel Wilson shifts between tenderness and mischief, blunt observation and spiritual searching. Forty-two-letter lines, forty-two-word poems, forty-two-syllable passages and other numerical echoes run quietly beneath the surface.

Rooted in contemporary British life but reaching towards something stranger and more universal, 42 is a playful, restless collection for readers who like their poetry alive with voice, surprise and thought.