The Little Ache

The Little Ache – a German notebook was written in 2013–14, while Ian Wedde was researching his acclaimed novel The Reed Warbler . In Berlin and the north of Germany around Kiel, nineteenth-century ancestors whisper to him amid the clamour of history and the pleasures of daily life.'Reading Ian Wedde's sinewy, emblematic new collection reaffirmed for me the problem of using the linear, continuous medium of prose to discuss the oblique, spatially-and temporally-liberated language of poetry. It also reafirmed how good the guy is.' —David Hill, Kete Books'This is surreal, honest and moving. These are nervy, impassioned poems that search for happiness.' —Hamesh Wyatt, Otago Daily Times