C G Deakins

The Angry Woodcutter Collection C G Deakins

A selection of poems mostly about land-based economics, technology, wastefulness, and its effect on working conditions in Britain, written from the perspective of a fictitious woodcutter. 'Angry Woodcutter' is all heart - hates competition, consumerism, market forces, devaluation of primary resources, tick boxes, airports and training courses. He is anti-capitalist, libertarian, sceptic, fatalist loser in love, quirky working class hero and eccentric general. Through him the poems explore the nature of honesty and self awareness. Through other poems such as 'Poems...' the author questions whether we live in an age where people really want to engage with feelings - theirs or other people's - perhaps because it's such a complicated, paradoxical world; whether they would prefer to do something else, read poems about something else. Memories perhaps, smells, or sex. Two of the poems are all about these things.