"I would call him an indubitable modern sentence master." — SAMUEL DELANY
"Like Kafka with a brighter sense of humour.” — A.A. ATTANASIO
"Wit and whimsy and word-relish, high spirits and bittersweet twists." — IAN WATSON
Saturday 6 July 2024
In This Poem
In This Poem (2024)
75 poems, none previously published. Concerned with such topics as mythical beasts, robots, ghosts, gods, dilemmas, metaphysics, trousers, bridges, haircuts, paradoxes, windows, journeys, brackets, pretzels, dinosaurs, thunder, duels, bears, kangaroos and dozens of other objects, ordeals and ideas. Always entertaining and offbeat. Regarded by the author as his best poetry collection to date.
