by Chris Laoutaris (Author)

Bleed and See is an elegy for Chris Laoutaris' brother, George Laoutaris, whose premature death is grasped so close in the poet's hands, it passes with the beauty of the last of the summer roses. Chris Laoutaris quotes from an army of rich sources, from Desiderius Erasmus to Denise Levertov, with the inner strength to match them: "wisdom acquired through suffering is a kind of gift". Bleed and See is an otherworldly, moon-drenched collection which, like the best elegies, leaves us changed.