A Book of Odes by Alan Baker Sarajevo Roses Approaching the polemic or the

Approaching the polemic or the existential with a gentle touch

How can humour help us survive hardship

the grief of a loving mother cruelly separated from her infant son

Otomo Yakamochi

– Ian Patterson

A Book of Odes by Alan Baker Sarajevo Roses Approaching the polemic or the"A Book of Odes is a joy to read because Baker is so adroit at speaking of many things at the same time that we never lose sight of any of them, and not only that, they are important things, whether its the lives of natural things in our unnatural world, and vice versa, or those unnatural things themselves, which in the end turn out to be natural, too, since what else can they be, theres only one place for everything to be happening, which at times