The Jazz Age: An Entertainment by Aidan Semmens Ruth McIlroy In a beautiful pea-green boat

In a beautiful pea-green boat

drawing on the folkloric and mythic traditions of north Britain – as well as forms from older English traditions

are equally at home in ancient cities or on today’s derelict coasts

London jazz clubs

The linguistic innovations of that novel

The Jazz Age: An Entertainment by Aidan Semmens Ruth McIlroy In a beautiful pea-green boatSemmens startling new collection is a sequence of surreal fantasies in which famous figures from (mostly) the past sometimes singly, sometimes in unlikely pairings make incongruous, anachronistic appearances in modern settings and situations, or in episodes from times not their own. Incongruous and laugh out loud funny, the poems delight the reader, yet much darker elements are at play. Salt Publishing