Never Lost for Words

Nigel Jarrett is an award-winning poet and writer of fiction whose previous collections, Five Go to Switzerland and Other Stories and Gwyriad: Poems have previously been published by Cockatrice. But he was also for many years a newspaperman, whose articles and reviews written over a long career shape the essays collected here. Witty, wide-ranging, and often provocative, this highly readable and entertaining collection discusses chess, swimming, language, literature, daily life and modern mores with the author’s customary playfulness, curiosity, and flair.

‘Explaining what Jarrett does with language is a bit like trying to map gossamer with a chunky felt-tip.’

Mary-Ann Constantine

‘A polymath of the written word… Every page has something to savour.’

Jonathan Lee, Nation Cymru