Blue-Green Algae by Rosie Driffill MD Kerr as do various forms of

as do various forms of animal life and fragments of our damaged environment

generated by a dominating thought that the reader is hardly aware of

It also brings into print previously unpublished poems from Slater’s papers at the University of Nottingham

There is no simple equivalent to Nora Gomringer in the UK but Kae Tempest is perhaps the closest in terms of the way she is experimental wile remaining accessible and in her ability to stride seamlessly from stage to page to film to literature festival

Blue-Green Algae by Rosie Driffill MD Kerr as do various forms ofIts nature poetry, so its pretty, and its ugly. Its us at our messiest, our most incongruous. Running around. Running away. Learning that there is nowhere to run to. In this meditation on flora, fauna, fire and failing relationships, birds flee, trees hide, gargoyles weep, Arcadia grows ever more distant, and we humans that we are see fit to plant marigolds and dig up dandelions. Cook chickens and swoon over kingfishers. Protect the game birds then