Masculine HappinessThis provocative debut collection, some years in the making, is often inspired by the poets reading of American literature: the conversational tone of Frank OHara and the long lined garrulity of Allen Ginsberg, as well as the models of masculinity handed out to us by Hollywood characters like John Wayne. This is also a writer who casts a cold eye on the natural world, at one point lauding a landscape and the next, mourning its depredation. There is

surveying their circumstances on one particular day

excerpt from new novel

‘Nine Years Later – A Poem Dated’

Also available in limited-edition hardback: ISBN 9781906570590 (£12

The Blue Cat Walks the Earth is the third book in which Frank Reeve has let the Blue Cat out of the bag

a transcriptor’s preface

while keeping the framework of the original vision intact

Desiree Reynolds has powerful things to say about race

it should attract a large and enthusiastic audience" Paul Avrich

once term begins

William Henry Fox Talbot set up the first commercial studios to mass-produce photographs from negatives and he chose the Berkshire town of Reading as its location

Mirta Rosenberg