E-book Category: Poetry E-book Title: STRESSING THE ESSENTIAL Author: John O'Loughlin Book Description: Despite the nominal commitment of the opening poems in this volume to rhyme, this collection of poems by John O'Loughlin soon gravitates towards free verse, and does so with a philosophical vengeance, so to speak, which tends to gather momentum as one progresses through the poems, culminating in one of the author's best.