'...one of the best books
to have appeared in [the] UK so far this century...' Jeremy Hilton:
Fire #19
'...a captivating exploration of love, grief, and especially hope in a prisoner
of war camp... But Pieces is also about violence, and therein lies something
fascinating and even beautiful ... The lines are musical, lulling ... creates
an enchanted, awful place where people are dying, where we don't want them to
stop dying, so we can keep reading...' Donna Biffar: Orbis #121
'...The descriptive density and personal revelation of the experience give these
'pieces' poetic weight .... Smith has a winning style...' The Black Mountain
Review #6
'...Smith's language has an abstract and untethered feel, but his descriptions
of the natural cycle of life continuing beyond and without reference to the
prisoners are compellingly precise...' L. Kiew NHI Online Review
'...prose-poetry items which stand alone, or as a landscape of observations...
This is a new approach; you need to read it yourself.' Geoff Stevens:
Purple Patch #101
'...This powerful book is well worth the money not only for its unassuming psychological
insights but for the exquisite sensual images that pervade, all of which are
startlingly English. Don't be deterred by the subject matter, this is not a
squeamish book; it is a book that explores our values of life and it is a book
about endurance and beauty. About 60 pages long, its unshrinking, forthright
style make it quite quick to read (I didn't want to put it down) but the images
therein linger long after the turning of each page. Pieces should not be left
sitting on any publisher's shelf; it should be dog-eared and passed on.' Carol
Thistlethwaite: Tregolwyn Book Reviews
'...suddenly I ran into
something not just good but great, a poem which I hope has already gone round
the world but if not should do so as soon as possible. It is Sam Smith's PIECES,
an exhibition of 21st-century war via the small-town concentration camp...'
Rip Bulkeley: NHI Online Review
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about Sam Smith
Fiction by Sam Smith:
Marks
| Porlock
Counterpoint | The
End of Science Fiction | Sick
Ape | The
Care Vortex | Vera
& Eddy's War
