Squid Squad by Matthew Welton Incarnation drawing on the traditional Scots-Irish

drawing on the traditional Scots-Irish Gaelic alphabet of trees

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Thom Gunn has been described as ‘one of the most singular and compelling poets in English during the past half-century’ (TLS)

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and a hymn to Nisaba

Squid Squad by Matthew Welton Incarnation drawing on the traditional Scots-IrishIn Squid Squad: A Novel we join Natalie Chatterley, Angus Mingus, Nerys Harris and friends as they make recordings of the doorbell, uncrumple their cash and fling their walnuts from the window. They contemplate the spaces between the spaces between things and compare the rhythm of rhetoric to the rhetoric of rhythm, while around them chickens feed on chestnuts, nuthatches nest in bicycle baskets, and budgerigars sulk themselves to sleep. The second