The Vitalist Sees the Signs

<p><em>The Vitalist Sees the Signs</em> is a sly searing and spectacularly inventive sequence from GB Clarkson where each poem casts its eye on the absurd the divine and the intimately strange. The Vitalist an electrified poetic persona moves through funeral parlours bogs of misogyny literary sojourns with George Eliot and John Donne and surreal maritime metaphysics collecting grief insight and an ever-mutating philosophy of survival. With fierce humour and fierce tenderness Clarkson turns language inside out making space for the sacred the disobedient and the deeply felt. This is a poetry of hauntings and high style of jam sandwiches and apocalyptic insight of devotion and delight. To read <em>The Vitalist Sees the Signs</em> is to wake to the world's weirdness again renewed altered ablaze.</p>