“This is a ship steered by Werner Herzog and captained by Klaus Kinski.” Fred Johnston on A Curious Shipwreck (Tears in the Fence) “These poems use techniques of cut-up and collage to build seemingly coherent texts that unnerve the reader by sudden shifts and unexpected diversions…” {“Spence’s}... ... Read More
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Lyndon Davies: An Allotment
The cycle of almost-sonnets gathered here began life in the opening days of the Covid 19 lockdown, when the author and his wife took on the rental of a run-down, rabbit-besieged local allotment.These... ... Read More
Jeanette McCulloch and Graham Hartill: Knotworks
Kilpeck church is compelling and absolute, as are other local churches with their painted walls and Romanesque carvings, each a repository... ... Read More
Sarah Crewe: a letter to uncle alexei
a letter to uncle alexei is a fictional poetic postcard to a fictional uncle, Alexei Sayle. It is an exploration of the challenges of working class parenthood across... ... Read More
Allen Fisher: Migraine Conference
Migraine Conference brings together all the poetry from six of the nine books published since Gravity as a consequence of shape: Fall air Sound (2015), BLACK POND (2018-21, a limited... ... Read More
Robert Sheppard: Doubly Stolen Fire
"Mixing and matching hybrid modes – memoir, essay, creative non-fiction, fiction, fictional poems, psychogeographical dérives, jokes, footnotes and poetics – Doubly Stolen... ... Read More
Mélisande Fitzsimons: The Only Country in the World
'Mélisande Fitzsimons’s new collection is jam-packed with intrigue, interesting information, surreal and dreamy interjections... ... Read More
Anthony Mellors: Folk Etymology
Folk Etymology contains most of the poems written by Anthony Mellors during the 2010s. It includes individual poems and sequences written for the most varied of circumstances, including a... ... Read More
Tim Allen: Very Rare Poems Upon the Earth
Tim Allen’s Very Rare Poems Upon The Earth is a glorious ticker-tape parade through the city of language on an evening when the wind has blown René Magritte’s... ... Read More
Lee Duggan: Residential Poems
Lee Duggan’s Residential Poems are migratory and expansive, roaming between north Wales and fragmentary cities, dissolving the boundaries between spaces and species with their... ... Read More
Lyndon Davies: Mont-Saint-Jean
On the morning of the eighteenth of June 1815, the Duke of Wellington deployed his troops along a ridge near the village of Mont-Saint-Jean, in what is now north-central Belgium. What followed... ... Read More
Anthony Mellors: Winter Journey
In 2014, as a creative response to conditions in the former East Germany after reunification, fugitive Dessau poet Daniel zur Höhe (1960– ) completed his multi-layered, paranoid reinventions... ... Read More
