The Blind Road-Maker Emily Berry and is completed by a

and is completed by a section of new poems

the bestselling Taking Off Emily Dickinson’s Clothes

There may be flight

Irish activist Roger Casement

and the conveyor belt of still-lives that is the poet’s imagination

The Blind Road-Maker Emily Berry and is completed by aIf the starting point for a number of poems in Ian Duhig's richly varied new collection is Sterne's Tristram Shandy, its presiding genius is the great eighteenth century civil engineer, fiddler and polymath Blind Jack Metcalf whose life Duhig here celebrates, and from whose example he draws great inspiration. Writing with an almost Burnsian eclecticism, Duhig explores urban poverty, determinism, social justice and the consolations of poetry and music