Libra – per libris ad astra by Kevin Mills

“The extraordinary verbal richness and ambition of this book should not be mistaken for obscurity. Kevin Mills deals unapologetically in deep veins of learning, whether early astronomy or Mesopotamian myth, but his knowledge is always leavened with a curiosity and, frequently, a kind of impish delight …any reader who is willing to play the game will come out feeling themselves acquainted not just with new knowledge but with a new attitude to knowledge; it will leave them wanting more. These poems reach out…. They are serious in the wish to communicate her…. The writing is witty and tender, delicate and tough. It consistently charms us out of the every-day…”

Philip Gross

Kevin Mills studied for both his BA and PhD in Wales and currently lectures at the University of Wales, Glamorgan where he specialises in Shakespeare, English Renaissance Literature and Myth and Narrative. His research interests include Literature and religion and Victorian literature and he is currently working on a critical-creative crossover book for Sussex Academic Press. His first poetry collection, Fool was published by Cinnamon Press.