Jenny Pearson, Writer and co-editor of the recently published "Well-Tuned
Women" brought Philip A. Absolon's work to my attention and I am delighted
to be able to reprint some of his poetry here in DAIL. He is extremely dry,
earthy and moves swiftly between mischief-maker and Machiavellian. Above all,
it is Absolon's passions exposed and raw, spread before us, that move me most.
His work excites me because he is a shrewd cynic in his observations of human
relations and yet he manages to remain vulnerable. Hangman Books, Kent have
at last published his work. "Fear of Desire" represents his first
poetry collection, 'translated from the dyslexic' and interspersed with his
own illustrations.