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Managed Woodland: Poems for Gurminder Sikand (Chapbook. Red Ceilings Press, 2024) 'If you doubt a poem can be eight, six, even four words, read this beautiful collection and see how the weave of poetry works. Sometimes it feels that there is as much of the poet’s breathing on the page as his words. And the poetry is in the breathing and the words.' (Adrian Buckner) 'Tim Youngs’ poems for his late wife are a delight. Each beautifully crafted tiny piece captures a different aspect of their relationship or the poet’s grief at the loss of it or his continuing conversation with the woman he loved. A deceptively modest short collection which is filled with love, humour and pathos. I was both moved and dazzled by it.' (Carole Bromley) 'profoundly moving, understated, vibrant' (Rory Waterman) |
Transmission Blues (Chapbook. Red Ceilings Press, 2022)
'covers a lot of ground: art, music, love, history, a sense of place. There’s a gentle authority in the writing of these finely-tuned and evocative poems; and something that draws you in and stays with you long after you’ve read them.' (Cliff Yates )
'concision and concrete imagery ... convey intense emotion and meditative calm, sometimes in the same poem; Youngs achieves this by an acute awareness of linguistic effects and an ear for rhythm.' (Alan Baker)
'precise glimpses of love ... depth and humour housed in deceptive simplicity.' (Jo Dixon)
''I really enjoy and admire the spare, beautifully-crafted lyrics of Transmission Blues – the music of the line, the way the images make the ordinary extraordinary, the way the tiny narratives are built up, the sense we get of a life and family life from so few words. I keep going back to them.' (Ian Seed)
'covers a lot of ground: art, music, love, history, a sense of place. There’s a gentle authority in the writing of these finely-tuned and evocative poems; and something that draws you in and stays with you long after you’ve read them.' (Cliff Yates )
'concision and concrete imagery ... convey intense emotion and meditative calm, sometimes in the same poem; Youngs achieves this by an acute awareness of linguistic effects and an ear for rhythm.' (Alan Baker)
'precise glimpses of love ... depth and humour housed in deceptive simplicity.' (Jo Dixon)
''I really enjoy and admire the spare, beautifully-crafted lyrics of Transmission Blues – the music of the line, the way the images make the ordinary extraordinary, the way the tiny narratives are built up, the sense we get of a life and family life from so few words. I keep going back to them.' (Ian Seed)
Touching Distance (Chapbook. Five Leaves, 2017)
'Tim Youngs’ seventeen poems in this pamphlet from Five Leaves resonate with a deft, quiet passion to satisfy all poetic sensibilities, save the florid and rhetorical. That deftness is apparent also in the ordering of poems, the structuring of the pamphlet.' (Adrian Buckner in Litter)
'delicately formed poems of home and away, some quietly sad, some very funny, all very good indeed.' (Tim Hannigan)
