The Blue Armchair by John Froy John Keats but it’s also strangely familiar

but it’s also strangely familiar

At the ends of the earth

Headless John the Baptist Hitchhiking

crows float elegant in rigor mortis

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The Blue Armchair by John Froy John Keats but it’s also strangely familiarIn The Blue Armchair, his third collection, John Froy seeks to rediscover his mother after her death in poems widely and wildly various. But which mother? The inspiring painter he hardly saw, a reckless mother he saw too much of? Or an ill, unhappy woman? These complications provide the background, but others too often take centre stage. We meet father, siblings, step parents, a grandmother and a tragic grandfather, lovers and friends. In poems