Description
Floodmeadow draws us into a seething pastoral where lightning threatens and thunder gathers, pylons and powerlines hum, and steel-framed gates sing out into the wind.
In these incantatory pieces, everything is present at once. The landscape, teetering on apocalypse, is characterised by collision and disintegration. Among fragments of memory and history are meticulously journaled observations of the natural world: the moorhen who ‘with exaggerated delicacy steps / free of the reedbeds’; the dragonfly that ‘pushes itself through the armour / of its body’ to be born. Human relations are fleeting and vulnerable, appearing in the impression of a wedding or the recurring moments captured between a father and son, who make between them delicate balsawood constructions, which – as the poems do themselves – take flight in the turmoil, ecstatic one moment, plunged into darkness the next. This is a visionary collection that invokes other times, dimensions and soundscapes to tell out some word of beauty and abundance in the here and now.
Something About a Bear 
Collected Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith 
Ten Poems About Knitting 
I May Be Stupid But I'm Not That Stupid 
Hansel and Gretel 
Ten Bedtime Poems (Volume One) (Selected and Introduced by William Boyd) 
Shuffle and Squelch: Book and CD Pack 
Is This a Poem?: What makes a poem, and how YOU can write one 
Spiritlands 
Somewhere Else Entirely 
Dog Poems 
The Silvering 
Luck Is the Hook