Variety Turns by Christopher Arksey Luke Wright called the poems ‘nameless shameless

called the poems ‘nameless shameless abominations’

Jack Solloway

and discloses a backstory of abandoned intentions

“These brilliant poems authentically offer the psychogeography of a known and lived landscape from the common but less-represented perspective of a body that is in many ways ‘queer’ to the ableism and gendering of ‘nature writing’

All it would take is Marc Swan’s immensely readable fifth collection

Variety Turns by Christopher Arksey Luke Wright called the poems ‘nameless shamelessVariety Turns is a collection of elegies for Christopher Arksey's mum who passed away from cancer in 2016. Arksey pays tribute to his mum by recalling not just the solemn moments, but the dark humour we often lean on when trying to cope with loss. These poems exemplify the permanence of grief, while bringing to light the unknowable and unfulfilled parts of the lives of those we've lost. Written with subtle precision, Variety Turns is both a tender