Allotments

The small poems . . . slowly build up to a much larger narrative; a narrative of time and memory of thinking and looking and being in the world a kind of history that is happening on the sidelines. - Fiona Wright  Sceptical as I am about anti-poetry of which there is a lot around and which can assume many different forms the fully formed poems are not the only writing I can value in a book like this. There is too much wit absurdity and sheer verbal craft to be ignored. -Peter Riley