Flood

'A. F. Harrold's poems are so immediately engaging and amusing that there is a danger of missing their depths. They are verbally scrupulous, exact and minutely observant. These poems are the real thing: serious about being human and being at home in the world.' - Bernard O'Donoghue 'The poems in this collection wear their scholarship lightly, often with a formal dexterity that is deeply satisfying. A.F. Harrold doesn't censor his extraordinary and generous imagination; he enters the territory between this world and whatever comes after it, writing so clearly and tenderly about death, memory and love that I felt both bruised and stroked.' - Catherine Smith