Ghost Passage by Josephine Balmer Theophilus Kwek and in the bursting of

and in the bursting of balloons

Where the heart is at once ‘all lurgy’ and an ‘investment piece’ to be saved for best

his poems engage ecological disaster

to comfort and distract us from the cares of everyday life

exploring intimacy and unconditional love as well as isolation and confinement

Ghost Passage by Josephine Balmer Theophilus Kwek and in the bursting ofGhost Passage explores the ways in which we write ourselves in to the landscape, leaving our own trace, making our mark. From inscribed ancient artefacts and recently excavated writing tablets of Roman London the earliest known written texts in the city to tombstones in a remote Kent churchyard, the collection deciphers the hidden texts that weave through our past, articulating lost and often overlooked voices. Outside the usual boundaries of