Plague Songs by Martin Rowson Vasily Kandinsky Anthony Anaxagorou achieves all these

Anthony Anaxagorou achieves all these things

writing with passion of the Welsh language and identity for which she campaigns

as with the best of sombre narratives

In Guises he builds on the strengths of twelve previous collections

and criticism

Plague Songs by Martin Rowson Vasily Kandinsky Anthony Anaxagorou achieves all theseIn May 2020 the award winning cartoonist Martin Rowson set himself the challenge of writing a Lockdown Diary in verse. The result is Plague Songs, a unique cycle of furious, bleakly comic and often offensive poems about COVID 19, fiercely inventive and desperately funny. Rowson, who recovered from the virus at the start of the year (sweating in freezing fits, embalmed in bed In sulphurous miasmata, my joints like broken walnuts, With hogtied eyeballs