The Blue Armchair by John Froy Jean Watkins haunted by violence and apparently

haunted by violence and apparently doomed to return to it – yet resolved to find kindness again

To contain these contradictory impulses and

These poems question where we might find fulfilment

An immersive collection of poetry to open your world

and the stories of her female elders

The Blue Armchair by John Froy Jean Watkins haunted by violence and apparentlyIn 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