UNDERNEATH THE BOUGH
By Thomas A. Davies
BeeJay. 67 pages. £6.95. ISBN 0 9541137 0 5
Available from BeeJay, 25 Kings Well Court, The Causeway, Seaford, Sussex BN25 1WF
Ouch. Fetching cover, neat title, but if you decide to use Omar Khayyam as a way into your own second collection of verses, please, please avoid a double mis-quotation on your title page! Even the hymn by Samuel Davies (an ancestor?) gets in a bit of a muddle on page 42.
However, this is an often appealing little book; a thoughtful present for someone whose own writing could be encouraged by it. It comes from a generation which remembers cigarette cards, and patches of grass where local lads played cricket in the summer rather than round-the-year football. The author has a sharp eye for detail and a ready pen for the small incident.
