A Bluebottle in Late October by John Wheway Carcanet Press Underneath the defamiliarising ingenuity

Underneath the defamiliarising ingenuity

There are poems about dinosaurs in their Jurassic heyday

Lorde was New York State Poet Laureate until her death

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This colourful and vivid first collection continues the course of Mina Gorji's meticulous explorations of 'the strange and sometimes darker side of nature' and the different forms and meanings of escape: dandelions crossing the ocean

A Bluebottle in Late October by John Wheway Carcanet Press Underneath the defamiliarising ingenuityJohn Wheways first full collection places its trust exactly where it should be: in the poetic present tense where every gnomic detail is magnified, every commonplace brought to its own species of transfiguration. At a time when the lyric is so much in need, he rejuvenates it in its most pellucid and most effortless form; the couplet is reshaped and crystallised, and comes to life. A Bluebottle in Late October is a memorable sequence of poems. Tim