The Land of Give and Take Laura Watkinson and kissed her

and kissed her

It was a time when "children did not have open access to the world of adults and childhood had not yet disappeared"

both as a poet and as a critic

Andrew Motion

The Land of Give and Take Laura Watkinson and kissed herIn The Land of Give and Take, Tyler Farrells second collection of poems, a variety of characters appear as on a stage: teenagers and grandparents, priests and poets, the wise and the foolish. Shadowing many of the poems is a conflicted Catholicism, sometimes resentful of the Churchs claims, but recognising that, in the end, nothing else gives the same weight and meaning to this transient life. There is morning and night to see through their eyes.