Mathematics Of Love

Like his mentor Jose Garcia Villa, John Edwin Cowen is a brave poet. He takes poetic risks with language and the result is often a beautiful flower behind the barbed wire of craftsmanship. I love the variety of poems in Mathematics of Love and the charged-up voice that powers all the work. He can be tender, challenging, energetic, and as complex musically as Villa and his other love, Dylan Thomas.

I recommend this book to all those who care about poetry and who care about the human spirit.

Peter Thabit Jones
Welsh poet
Founder and Editor of THE SEVENTH QUARRY-Swansea Poetry Magazine