Transcience – Nick Jones
ISBN: 9781788648608
£6.99
In Transience, Nick Jones moves across the themes that touch on our fragility and mortality. What do we really believe? How do we live as creatures in time, juggling fate and history? How do we navigate the best and worst of human impact on the earth and one another?
Transience touches everything and none of us escape without loss. And yet at the heart of it all, love remains, conjured here with poignant elegance and with thanks for all that has been. An expansive, tender collection.
Author biography
Nick Jones is a retired professor in surgery. He was born in Switzerland where his parents were convalescing with tuberculosis, his father having contracted it in Bergen Belsen as a medical volunteer. In 1983 he walked across Papua New Guinea from Kikori to the Sepik with Dr Richard Bull along the route taken by Ivan Champion in 1926. He is the author of seven medical books, one biography on Tom Williamson, one travelogue and three poetry pamphlets, Encounter, Night Journey and Still Life. His interests include etching, reading and golf.