Love Cuts includes tales of plasters and other aspects of the fabric of life. There are various episodes of emotional injury and subsequent attempts at wound management, including a lengthy documentation of the quest for the holy spectacles. Alongside this there are further investigations into the author's relationship with art, his father, football, spuds, railways and sack racing.
The poet on peak form, as Cupid stomps on his glasses
Independent
Hegley's winsome humour contains verse of substance, whose poetic worth is concealed by but not confined to his impish word play
Guardian
His words are droll and whimsical and quite often make little sense.
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