Face

From a series commemorating a brother to love poems of great simplicity and truth, Cleary's work has the uncanny ability to make the mundane astonish and the other worldly intimate. Face includes three sections of poetry: 'Face', 'In Company' and 'The Ward'. Cleary's distinguished style and intimacy with language addresses incomprehensible loss with profound clarity. His use of dialect commemorates a time and place with a rare honesty, marking this collection a work of profound depth.