Dedicated to the Likes of You

Demetris Hapeshi is a qualified, registered social worker and a social work lecturer in a UK university. His professional work, as does his writing, allows him to draw upon his own experiences of being in local authority care when a child. He is the father of two, Andreana and Ariadne - the "likes" of whom this books is dedicated to.The poems in this volume offer the reader a varied and insightful selection of verse. Some of the poems, such as "Sarah" and "Rose", are flirtatious and...
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Demetris Hapeshi is a qualified, registered social worker and a social work lecturer in a UK university. His professional work, as does his writing, allows him to draw upon his own experiences of being in local authority care when a child. He is the father of two, Andreana and Ariadne - the "likes" of whom this books is dedicated to.The poems in this volume offer the reader a varied and insightful selection of verse. Some of the poems, such as "Sarah" and "Rose", are flirtatious and frolicsome, whilst others, such as "Scrounger" and "Snowed Under", are serious social and political commentaries. The poems sometimes echo and homage other poets such as Lord Byron (in the poem "Silence"), George Meredith (in the poem Ode to Meredith") and T.S. Eliot (in the poem "Waiting for Magi"). With his use of extended conceits, Demetris's poems represent a contemporary twist on the metaphysical poets and, like those poets, the often the weighty philosophical, emotional or spiritual subject matter of the writing juxtapose beautiful soliloquies, such as in the case of "A Love Song for RK", with a startlingly harsh language not usually associated with the subject of, in the case of RK, a deeply held love. Such juxtapositions are also reminiscent and homage Shakespeare's Sonnet 130. In keeping with the metaphysical poets of the past, some of the poems, such as the haunting "I mourn impotence", are so multilayered they might correctly be considered multiverses.