The Unknown Civilian by Antony Owen Ciaran Berry His logo-philia evinces a fascination

His logo-philia evinces a fascination not merely with language but with the workings of the human mind

combining an artisanal virtuosity with passion

and combines a linguistic innovation with a deep emotional rooting

and his last two collections were Poetry Book Society Recommendations

The Unknown Civilian by Antony Owen Ciaran Berry His logo-philia evinces a fascinationThere is no doubting the profound intent and varied ambition of this collection. Caught in the withering and implacable gaze of war, Owen refuses to flinch. Like a surgeon intent on the truer cause, he peels away wars more overt skin to expose, with a disarming unsentimentally, some of the less obvious aspects of conflicts anatomy. Mario Petrucci Feathers and scalpels, I thought, reading this collection on the train between Lancashire meetings about