Jigsaw av David Underdown

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<p><i>Jigsaw</i>, David Underdown''s delightful and diverse new collection, comes together to offer fresh ways of looking at the world, always sane and at the same time quietly transcendent.<br>Whether reflecting on an encounter in the natural world or on significant moments in the story of a human life, Underdown pays attention to those small things that turn out after all to matter most. With a light step, he approaches the delicate wreck of a robin, follows a treecreeper''s hunt for bugs, imagines what might go on inside the head of a tawny owl.<br>Wordplay and understated humour enliven many of the poems, and the final section is a tender tribute to ''ordinary'', but never really ordinary, lives. The jigsaw brings together darkness and light, questioning and consolation. Underdown pays attention to the large-scale dangers of these Anthropocene times; at the same time, the poems illuminate and honour the courage it takes to look ordinary life in the eye.<br>- Alex Josephy</p>