Simple Arithmetic by Lloyd Rees

With Simple Arithmetic Rees revisits …themes with poems about memory, the changing seasons, the ephemerality of love – the need to struggle on despite the frailty and vulnerability of the human frame. The prevailing tone is Larkin-esque: ironic and self-mockingly poignant. In these new poems, he has moved on …to a greater honesty and depth.

Praise for Rees’ poetry

There is typical, sardonic humour; …an insight into Lloyd Rees’s exceptional versatility as a poet, but also much more about Lloyd Rees himself and his attitude to life. …‘It comes to a bunch of stuff./About half a life, in truth,/but not, Lord, yet quite enough.’

Alan Perry