HoneyfishHoneyfish confronts life and death. The collection begins and ends with poems that memorialise and mourn the deaths of African Americans who have died at police hands, though to call them poems of protest would simplify their exploration of what life means in relation to death. It is a collection whose architecture works to make each poem, beautiful in their singular grace, add up to much more than the sum of their individual parts. Thus, the poems

Spike Milligan and Charlie Chaplin at a drunken party to celebrate the twinning of Royston Vasey with the Gorbals

newspapers and anthologies

April/May 2008

so well known for her poems and her ‘artistic activism’ offers us

Dedalus has published four collections of his poems

all the pieces in this collection dodged the searchlights and crept under the wire in the last five years

Zen Cymru is the new collection of poems by that master of modern angst

moaning pitifully as always

This new anthology comprises over seventy-five poems and texts from our forty titles and celebrates the first decade of one of the UK’s most innovative literary publishers

stay in those days

his life as a writer in London

Lewis Buxton