Words from the Wall by Adam Thorpe Ailbhe Darcy something subterranean

something subterranean

and confirms what his admirers have long known

only imagined with a flinch

Eleanor Farjeon

just as into and out of the handbook of history

Words from the Wall by Adam Thorpe Ailbhe Darcy something subterraneanThese remarkable poems are despatches from the edges of experience: from the remote coast of northern Iceland where tree trunks and dead whales lie beached, to the furthest outposts of the Roman empire in the title poem From the very limit of the world, Flavius sends you greetings, my lord. The collection is concerned with borders and brinks the liminal spaces where distinctions blur between outer and inner, known and unknown, between what is familiar