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BREAKING
THE CHAINS
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BREAKING
THE CHAINS
Review in
Cross Rhythms magazine
Books
of Christian based poetry are few and far between
but with this fine book Britain
clearly has another wordsmith to put alongside the Steve Turners and
Stewart
Hendersons. In many ways there are echoes of both those poets' work in
the 100
odd poems presented here. But that's got nothing to do with any aping
of style,
it's just that Godfrey too has those poets' laconic wit and taste for
clever
play on words. My favourites on my first read were his neatly whimsical
'The
Place Where Socks Go' (the title of his first privately produced book)
while
the 45 poems under the heading 'The Sailing of the Ark'
really expose the banality of glib evangelical certainties and end by
revering the paradoxes of our faith. If you buy no other book of poetry
this
year, search out 'Breaking The Chains'.
Brian
Tucker, Cross Rhythms, February 1993