urban creatures

<p>Martens' poems are in free verse often surrealistic told in the cadence of his mennonite half-glass past hymns and snippets of conversations he's had with people in bars street corners and while travelling abroad. His poetry is urgent and intimate - deeply human richly emotive and achingly expressive. These extraordinary poems will not only draw you in but quietly transform you. He writes into the heart of complexity: identity deprivation ecology aging harmony - each theme delicately woven each word carrying weight. </p>