Deaths of the Poets by Michael Symmons Roberts and Paul Farley Enitharmon Press Brought up to date by

Brought up to date by a series of new and previously unpublished work

and psychologically

turning over sound and sense with gleeful dexterity

Interspersed with original poems in a variety of complex forms is a series of illuminated and darkly erotic ‘remakes’ of other poets’ work

Jordi Doce

Deaths of the Poets by Michael Symmons Roberts and Paul Farley Enitharmon Press Brought up to date byFrom Dylan Thomass eighteen straight whiskies to Sylvia Plaths desperate suicide in the gas oven of her Primrose Hill kitchen; from Chattertons Pre Raphaelite demise to Keats death warrant in a smudge of arterial blood, the deaths of poets have often cast a backward shadow on their work. The post Romantic lore of the dissolute drunken poet has fatally skewed the image of poets in our culture. Novelists can be stable, savvy, politically adept and in