Sometimes I write something about a book I like, and this is the case for Ben Dodd’s new book, The Ease of Eggs, for which I wrote what is called in the trade a puffery ( no puffins involved). And this is how I put it:

After reading The Ease of Eggs,  you may well look up and find the world is more acutely interesting. this book is a buffet of poetic bon mots, a cabinet of the eclectic: school  observations, the universe at large, men and gender, cinematic culture , science at work. But always we arrive at understanding and kindness: Dodd’s poetry is a quiet advocacy for a better world. 

And it’s true.