Shine

Poems that arise from the currents of felt experience.

Shine by Joseph Millar presents lyrical poems that delve into themes of work, love, filial connection, life, and death. This sixth collection marks a departure from Millar's usual narrative style, achieving a more profound, sonic resonance. These poems, described as half songs rendered in hardscrabble lyricism, captivate with their shifting, irregular rhymes, half rhymes, and off rhymes.

The collections' subjects emerge from everyday life, exploring deeper obsessions such as love, work, death, desire, and the art of creation itself. Infused with more humour than previous works, the poems feature unpredictable timing, appearing to listen to themselves as they flow down the page, offering a blend of wonder and reflection carried along by their inherent musicality.