Urn and Drum

<p>"The world within <em>Urn and Drum</em> is a cornucopia of shapes colours and objects fashioned almost as a gleeful surreal picture-book; a playful naivety that leads to serious questions of what it means to exist and feel in the world. Through linguistic dexterity and play [these poems] exclaim heartbreak and test the limits of language in a single line." —Rachael Allen</p><p>In exquisite rituals of embodied and object orientated writing Lila Matsumoto’s breath-taking new collection of poetry combines lightness of expression with a thrilling complexity of thought and emotion. There is joy and jouissance in this collection in abundance. —Colin Herd</p><p>"In Lila Matsumoto’s poems a hyperintense focus on things felt and seen leads not to description but to a parallel intensity of focussed and patterned sound.  From self-help muesli to grief bacon these word-incursions of “unspeakable / loss + bliss” are worth a thousand pictures; alternate soundtracks for imaginary films." —Peter Manson</p>