Nostoc by Daragh Breen Robert Macfarlane These exuberant poems welcome you

These exuberant poems welcome you into a psychedelic

memory and desire – and attends to them all with lines that feel newly-minted

and spectacular terrain

but they dwell only briefly in the familiar actual

a work which expresses the heart-sickening persistence and proliferation of beauty after Hiroshima

Nostoc by Daragh Breen Robert Macfarlane These exuberant poems welcome youLike the eponymous fungus that appears to be regurgitated by the Earth herself after rain, fragments of invented folklore and mongrel histories have stained through from Breens subconscious and come to bloom as a trio of sequences that deal, in turn, with mans tampering with Natures DNA through the selective breeding of dogs, societal fears of the witch figure, and the hopelessness of augury in the face of the inevitability of death. There are also