Monica's Overcoat of Flesh Adham Smart

Monica's Overcoat of Flesh Adham SmartThis remarkable debut collection from Geraldine Clarkson contains the uncontainable; wondrous, spellbound and daring poems, happy to roam from South American monasteries to the shorelines of memory. These bold, often witty and always hawk eyed poems survey matters of faith, tragedy and womanhood. Elaborate, skilful and formally audacious, Clarkson is a poet of extraordinary and kaleidoscopic vision; her writing always richly riotous with detail, her

Simon Barraclough (Poet in Residence at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory) is your guide in this tour-de-force book of poetry

or as a poet reading/reciting his unique poems

personal awakening

Learning how to take them back is another

He has edited many anthologies of poetry

evocative and enriching

A poet reflects on the lives of the different generations of women around her as she contemplates her own divorce from a socially-engaged photographer

Iain Sinclair - Walking Through Liverpool

they agreed

Peter Benson has created a new sort of ‘hero’ in Ed Beech

this is the first time Tea’s journalism has been collected

loss and the politics of modern living