God's A Good Man and Other Poems by Monica Furlong (used)

Monica Furlong writes in her introduction ,'being a writer forces you sooner or later to the discovery that your life has certain themes, certain obsessions ,which you can no more control than your height.' This collection of poems represents the handful of themes which have dominated her own life and experience. Some of the poems are less serious whilst others express what to her are 'the frightful and terrible aspects of human existence'. underlying all her work ,though not always easily seen, is a sense of meaningful existence. As she says: 'the pattern which I take too much for granted to mention in the book at all is a religious view of life