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The Smallest Deaths

by Rupert M. Loydell

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'Like many others before him, Loydell finds personal tragedy a galvanising force. His memorial work Not My Dad Anymore transcends everything else he has done.' - New Welsh Review. '...a sequence of poems to his father that punches to the heart of loss and faith.' - Envoi. 'Loydell sings his life, indeed revels in it. The downside of his awareness of mortality/vivacity comes with the atypically lengthy, typically touching memorial to his late father, Not My Dad Anymore - a series of vignettes evoking regret, familial frustration and loss with the simplest mutters. Resolutely simple and direct, Loydell's language resonates because he deals in identifiable-with emotions/scenarios, plainly yet poetically.'… (more)
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'Like many others before him, Loydell finds personal tragedy a galvanising force. His memorial work Not My Dad Anymore transcends everything else he has done.' - New Welsh Review. '...a sequence of poems to his father that punches to the heart of loss and faith.' - Envoi. 'Loydell sings his life, indeed revels in it. The downside of his awareness of mortality/vivacity comes with the atypically lengthy, typically touching memorial to his late father, Not My Dad Anymore - a series of vignettes evoking regret, familial frustration and loss with the simplest mutters. Resolutely simple and direct, Loydell's language resonates because he deals in identifiable-with emotions/scenarios, plainly yet poetically.'

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