Author Description

Energy, natural and man-made, is at the heart of Andrew Sant's 'The Bicycle Thief & Other Poems' - energy released at the speed of an escaping cyclist or through the planet's eruptions and metamorphoses in geologic time. Either way, here is the second law of thermodynamics writ large, creation and destruction in a binary tussle. The mischievous title poem, a fast-moving narrative, is a robust celebration of 'good-for-the-planet transport', while elsewhere motor vehicles depicted in a 'personal history' are drolly seen as harbingers of an apocalypse. Many poems are monologues that give voice to characters whose identities are fluid and circumstantial. These are poems that get about - lively, unfettered and expansive.