Towards a General Theory of Love by Clare Shaw Jean Boase-Beier disappointment and anger towards a

disappointment and anger towards a new beginning

‘Strong in the Rain’ – the title-poem of this selection – is now arguably the most memorised and quoted modern poem in Japan

and Kelly revives the symbols of old so that they might be re-spoken in a brazen

you’ll discover how a poet’s background and values can fundamentally shape and inform their work

As the focus comes to settle on Greece

Towards a General Theory of Love by Clare Shaw Jean Boase-Beier disappointment and anger towards aClare Shaw's fourth collection Towards a General Theory of Love shows that poetry can say as much as about who we are and especially how we feel as psychology. They also feed each other. Harry Harlow's famous experiments on baby monkeys changed the course of psychology. They proved that we need care, contact and love and they inflicted profound and lasting suffering on their subjects. Clare Shaw's poems in Towards a General Theory of Love are driven