Poems from the Cradle of Dreams Ken Gardner The Coming Thing looks hard

The Coming Thing looks hard at the duplicity surrounding received ideas about the sacredness of human life and how economic change runs counter to the values of old Ireland

or at least stay quiet in a community that has no place for them

as science has become ever more sophisticated and answered many of the questions previously in the domain of religion

and critical Black studies

Poems from the Cradle of Dreams Ken Gardner The Coming Thing looks hardLearning to speak read and write with my mother are happy childhood memories. From that time I developed a life long passion for words and reading. More recently I have discovered an intense desire to write poetry. Its as if I am learning to speak again but this time from the Cradle of Dreams. These poems have been selected from those written between 2014 and 2018.