Politics are never far away: modern man’s severance from the earth
you won’t be able to pick The Book of Clouds up without wanting to immediately start making your own cloud diary
Világos’ great gift has always been the ability to connect deeply to a sense of humanity without giving in to sentimentality
Containing selections of the work of 60 poets (ranging in age from their early 20s to their mid-50s) of the 180 who have contributed to the project over the past 3 years
subtle and heartfelt work
Lies Blurring Here by Adam Piette Edward Ragg Politics are never far away:Lies Blurring Here by Adam Piette is a richly textured, formally various collection that thinks through dream, memory and perception as mutable states where self and world repeatedly unfasten. Moving between nocturnes, necropastorals, ekphrastic sequences and lyric meditations, the book is steeped in intertextual conversation, from Apollinaire and Dickinson to Kafka, Dante, Sappho and Lully, yet remains acutely local in its attention to Derbyshire