Drypoint by Jamie McKendrick Olivia Gatwood Skoulding’s poems take their readers

Skoulding’s poems take their readers into new worlds: we come to terms with the oystercatcher’s ‘muscle of belonging’

and which describe different ways of falling and belonging to the earth

Patrick Worsnip's translations honour the poet’s use of traditional Italian forms while using appropriately colloquial diction

this is poetry ‘both melancholy and impassioned’

Geordie and English critique ableism

Drypoint by Jamie McKendrick Olivia Gatwood Skoulding’s poems take their readersJamie McKendrick's Drypoint depicts the turbulent present with incisive detail while often taking us back to an equally conflictual Biblical or classical world. Acute and stoical in tone, these poems transport us by bus or ferry or ghostly Rolls Royce to the cobbled streets of Ferrara, the once Greek port of Smyrna, the bombed acres of Liverpool and Mariupol, and to places not to be found on any map, places where 'North was south, being lost like