The poems in Aerogramme are as modern as they are inseparable from memory. Part travel log and field report, remembrance and eulogy. The strongest theme throughout is perhaps travel or the state of being travelled. Many familiar elements appear in the collection such as Covid, adjusting to technology and personal loss. Although earnest the poems present a wry humour throughout, sometimes deceptively so. Poets and readers of any generation will find something to take hold of in this rare and unaffected collection. The first release from Koef Nielsen since ‘Chinese Revisions’ published by Durham’s Pig Press in 1980.
Koef Nielsen was born in Copenhagen in 1948 to parents who lived in E Africa, where he was brought up until moving to the U.K. in 1961. His education includes spells at Newcastle University, Cumbria College of Agriculture and Forestry Newton Rigg, the Open University and London Business School. His employment is too varied to detail and was interspersed with travel, but longer periods involved antiquarian bookselling, the Greek merchant marine, the Forestry Commission in Scotland and England,
and financial services in London. He is married to Susannah, and has two sons with families of their own. He has been involved with poetry as long as he can remember.
Cover photograph by Susannah de Fere.
KV11
ISBN 9781917998000
56 pp.
140x180 paperback.
Printed on fully recycled paper.
25 Copies signed by the author.
