The Bird in the Glasshouse [Paperback]

Praise for Knute Skinners poetry:Skinner has poems that for sheer beauty take your head off.  John Gardner, on A Close Sky over Killaspuglonane If you want to know how real poetry reads, buy this book, read it, and keep it.  Leonard Blackstone, on Selected Poems Skinner does the lot: the sacred, the profane, the formal and the loose, and does them all wonderfully well.  John W. Sexton, Poetry Ireland NewsAs fine and engaging a testament to the complicated nature of simple pleasures as any in contemporary poetry.  Wayne Burroughs, StaplesSkinners mischievous eye never takes the ordinary for granted.  Jennifer Matthews, SouthwordIn a time when many poets cannot resist the grand gesture, Skinners art is the achievement of presence in the places we go to: in field, kitchen, bar, dictionary, anecdote, joke, love bower.  James Liddy, on Learning to Spell 'Zucchini' This is a stunning collection, full of mystery, cross-purposes, weird and tragic characters, and should be read from start to finish.  Aidan Murphy, on The Bears & Other Poems Skinner works a seemingly homespun Gothicity which is yet quietly artful in the way it jolts the reader out of the even tenor of pleasant expectations.  Tom Hubbard, Poetry Ireland ReviewThere are very few books of poetry that you would run back into a burning building to retrieve. Make no mistake, 'An Upside Down World' is one of them.  Frank Golden, on An Upside Down World This is the thirteenth collection from senior US and Irish poet Knute Skinner.IE