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.
Notebook of a Return to My Native Land 
Spiritlands 
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats 
The 'White City' 
The Museum of Disappearing Sounds 
The Genre of Silence 
My Family and Other Superheroes 
Fauverie 
Ten Poems About Horses 
A Quarter of an Hour 
I May Be Stupid But I'm Not That Stupid 
Gold from the Stone 
States of Happiness 
Being Alive 
Somewhere Else Entirely 
Disturbance