Description
What do animal dens have in common with mathematics? Lairs is darkly suggestive of secretive havens and shelters, but also frames the poem as an equation. This collection is both a kind of nest and a beautiful accumulation of dense detail. Lairs also highlights the contrast between noble aspirations and a messy reality, the poems’ atmospheres being sometimes borrowed from the fervid pandemic lockdowns. The innovative style is daring and embraces complex music. Post-Brexit life is also a subtle strand in these poems, as they deflate and challenge establishment conservatism.
Footnotes to Water 
Selected Poetry 
The Inner Harbour 
The Tamarit Poems 
Jelly Boots, Smelly Boots 
Funny Ha-Ha, Funny Peculiar: A Book of Strange and Comic Poems 
States of Happiness 
Gold from the Stone 
Dog Poems 
Swansea Automatic 
This Is Yarrow 
Book of Mercy 
Strong in the Rain 
The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova 
Isn't Forever 
Collected Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith 
New and Selected Poems, Volume Two 
Pretend You Don't Know Me 
Spiritlands 
Somewhere Else Entirely 
Luck Is the Hook 
Imagined Sons 
I May Be Stupid But I'm Not That Stupid 
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats 
Negative of a Group Photograph 
A Children's Treasury of Milligan 
The Art of Derek Walcott