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.







Under Clouded Skies & Beauregard: Pens?es sous les nuages & Beauregard (Bloodaxe Contemporary French Poets, 5)
Spiritlands
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
Dog Poems
Being Alive
Fresh Out of Dragonflies
Jinx
Fauverie
This Is Yarrow
Short Days, Long Shadows
The 'White City'
On the Motion and Immobility of Douve
Milk and Honey
New and Selected Poems, Volume Two
The Tamarit Poems
101 Poems About Childhood
My Colourful Chameleon
Comic Poems
Luck Is the Hook
In Her Own Words
The Claims Office