Chris Woods

Praise for Chris:
With this new collection, Chris Woods achieves a genuine unity of subject matter and expression. In language that is taut, pared-down, he travels through everyday family life – holidays, music, swimming, TV news, the drive to work - whilst also charting a darker quest for personal metamorphosis – for a kind of release, or new simplicity. His poems are self-effacing and matter of fact yet he dives deep and finally surfaces into space and light. It is a moving and affective journey.
- Amanda Dalton
‘Chris Woods’ poetry always has the sense of a direct hit, of an
image or metaphor cleverly retrieved and accurately placed so that,
whether he is writing about the mixed pleasures of a family holiday or
the claustrophobia of modern living, the reader is able to recognise
familiar dilemmas at the same time as relishing their strangeness.’
- Gerard Woodward
- Linda Chase
Publications by Chris Woods

Dangerous Driving
The poems in Chris Woods' second collection remind us to take time out from our lives, from ourselves, and share with us both the pleasures and surprises that come with even the smallest skive…