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.
The Penguin Book of Haiku 
The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches 
The Lover's Pinch 
On Love and Barley - Haiku of Basho 
Strong in the Rain 
Spiritlands 
Collected Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith 
River Lane 
Hansel and Gretel 
Imagined Sons 
The 'White City' 
Being Alive 
States of Happiness 
Pretend You Don't Know Me 
The Tamarit Poems 
Words the Turtle Taught Me 
This Is Yarrow 
Steep Tea 
Luck Is the Hook 
Consorting With Angels 
And You, Helen