Swimming With Horses by Nicholas Hogg Katherine Horrex 'Deborah Landau's poems make me

'Deborah Landau's poems make me feel alive

Here the poets tend towards e-pistolary contemplations of retro-adolescence

we find the spare recollections of a sensitive mind in conversation with the natural world

Matthew Rice’s poems are surreal snapshots

which can be read as Iraqi haiku

Swimming With Horses by Nicholas Hogg Katherine Horrex 'Deborah Landau's poems make meSwimming With Horses by Nicholas Hogg is a sharp, songful collection that treats literature as lived experience and lived experience as a kind of ongoing reading. These poems move from Hampstead Heath storms and van life mornings to New York book haunted streets, Paris rooms, and the long afterimages of war reportage, always alert to how language mediates danger, desire, and memory. Books become talismans and traps, poems become sances, and the