Chagall’s Moon - Jeremy Robson

Written with characteristic craft and wit, many of the poems in Chagall’s Moon reflect the changed world in which we find ourselves, as rockets rain nightly on Ukrainian cities, refugees drown in the channel, and post-Brexit chaos reigns. Chagall’s Moon movingly creates a world of love and loss, identity and laughter, dreams and nightmares, where Beethoven and Picasso rub shoulders with Billie Holiday, Chagall’s lovers still fly in a cloudless sky, the ghosts and horrors of recent Jewish history are never far away, friendship and childhood memories still stir, and love presides