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.
Selected Poetry 
Collected Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith 
Swansea Automatic 
Sister Outsider 
The Tamarit Poems 
The Talisman: Stories and Poems in Hindi and in English 
The Map and the Clock: A Laureate's Choice of the Poetry of Britain and Ireland 
Short Days, Long Shadows