The Blue Armchair by John Froy Malika Booker In Boiled Owls

In Boiled Owls

2002 and 2020 respectively

and by the Cassini mission’s astonishing photos of Saturn’s moons

- Mike Barlow

 Rogha Dánta (2012)

The Blue Armchair by John Froy Malika Booker In Boiled OwlsIn The Blue Armchair, his third collection, John Froy seeks to rediscover his mother after her death in poems widely and wildly various. But which mother? The inspiring painter he hardly saw, a reckless mother he saw too much of? Or an ill, unhappy woman? These complications provide the background, but others too often take centre stage. We meet father, siblings, step parents, a grandmother and a tragic grandfather, lovers and friends. In poems