Sparks Among the Stubble

Sparks among the Stubble is John Weir's first collection of poems since 1983. In it he offers glimpses of the incompleteness of life and the fallibility of our endeavours in terms of family relationships, of events in society at large, of the lives of particular writers, and of our progression towards deathone of its key themes being that as a result of effort and tribulation people of every time and place may come to shine like sparks among the stubble. Such insights are perhaps attributable to John Weir's vocation as a priest as well as a poet.