A Portable Paradise by Roger Robinson Adam ORiordan The central focus of The

The central focus of The White Silhouette is a lyrical

remarkable music

Running Upon The Wires is Kae Tempest’s first book of free-standing poetry since the acclaimed Hold Your Own

from the humour of ‘How to knit a sheep’ to the transcendent lyricism of the collection’s title poem

Poetry Book Society Autumn Special Commendation 2017

A Portable Paradise by Roger Robinson Adam ORiordan The central focus of TheRoger Robinsons range is wide: the joys and pains of family life; the ubiquitous presence of racism, both subtle and unsubtle; observations on the threatening edge of violence below the surface energies of Black British territories in London; emblematic poems on the beauty and often bizarre strangeness of the world of animals; quizzical responses to the strange, the heartening, and the appalling in incidents or accounts of incidents encountered in