Description
Collected Contraptions, comprising work from Peter McCarey’s five pamphlet collections, is an exhilarating journey on the U-bahns and runways of language: ‘In a matter of hours / they can take you anywhere’. The book opens with water, rain and shadows; the ‘singer’s mark’ from the lost language of the Indus Valley civilisation speaks from a Shakespeare sonnet; we are caught in a sci-fi spaghetti Western; a shady Czech smuggles a golem and a robot into pre-massacre Rwanda. Language shape-shifts, reinvents itself, before going on another road trip where stories are recited backwards and fast forward. Last is ‘Tantris’, an epic of intricate narrative whose message couldn’t be more simple: ‘Don’t go: don’t let the morning / Turn your head with her shivering, thin grace.’
Ten Poems about London (Selected and Introduced by George Szirtes) 
This Is Yarrow 
Ten Bedtime Poems (Volume One) (Selected and Introduced by William Boyd) 
The Christmas Collection 
Spiritlands 
Comic Poems 
Flood