Space Odes by Richard Parker March The poems of this dazzling

The poems of this dazzling second collection are of contradictory impulses: of abundance and famine

reminding us of what we lose by ceding ground to the officially sanctioned narrative

Often taking their cue from the work of visual artists

exposing the interplay of sound

‘The bloody mess of individuals – / plastic stuff outside an abandoned tent’

Space Odes by Richard Parker March The poems of this dazzlingRTA Parkers Space Odes is an entertainingly bonkers romp of constellation and collage, writing and re writing its entertainingly allusive way through intertextual space lampooning, deriding, despairing at and celebrating robots, the universe, love and sport (cricket, mostly) in a wonky poetics of anxiety and joy at the world we are thoroughly and catastrophically screwing up. No Catharsis. No bust through into the empyrean. No illumination. It ends