The Light Will Always Return

"Complex, erudite and immensely readable poems from a writer who uses a rich linguistic palette to address timeless and contemporary themes. These multi-layered poems are a deeply satisfying read - fusing musicality, lyricism with fascinating themes and motifs. Frank McMahon's poems have a rare and precious power, they inspire and inform in equal measure. An important poet with much to say," Anna Saunders - Poet and Founding Director Cheltenham Poetry Festival "Frank McMahon is a poet with a rare sensitivity to place and experience. His poems are like the needle of a seismograph, measuring the deep and daily tremors of our lives with an accuracy that is both moving and delightful," Juliette Morton - Poet, Writer, Director of Dialect Writers