The Blue Armchair by John Froy John Keats tender and undeceived – but

tender and undeceived – but how it’s held in structures of great poise and resonance

At the ends of the earth

crows float elegant in rigor mortis

told in the recent past: a meditation on love

The Blue Armchair by John Froy John Keats tender and undeceived – butIn 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