The Jazz Age: An Entertainment by Aidan Semmens Ruth McIlroy drawing on the folkloric and

drawing on the folkloric and mythic traditions of north Britain – as well as forms from older English traditions

devastating human cruelties and offers some hot tips on gardening

kneads little loaves of laver bread

Writers like Charles Simic and Matthew Sweeney seem like good reference points for this writing

while the poems prove that working class voices can offer more than schadenfreude

The Jazz Age: An Entertainment by Aidan Semmens Ruth McIlroy drawing on the folkloric andSemmens startling new collection is a sequence of surreal fantasies in which famous figures from (mostly) the past sometimes singly, sometimes in unlikely pairings make incongruous, anachronistic appearances in modern settings and situations, or in episodes from times not their own. Incongruous and laugh out loud funny, the poems delight the reader, yet much darker elements are at play. Salt Publishing