The Blue Armchair by John Froy Malika Booker I think I was one

I think I was one of the poets who became convinced of the need for change

and by the Cassini mission’s astonishing photos of Saturn’s moons

"I wouldn't know anything about that

now revealed at last in all its richness

But it is through the purgatorial leavening of pain that the narrator works towards a more devotional life

The Blue Armchair by John Froy Malika Booker I think I was oneIn The Blue Armchair, his third collection, John Froy seeks to rediscover his mother after her death in poems widely and wildly various. But which mother? The inspiring painter he hardly saw, a reckless mother he saw too much of? Or an ill, unhappy woman? These complications provide the background, but others too often take centre stage. We meet father, siblings, step parents, a grandmother and a tragic grandfather, lovers and friends. In poems