The Slipping Forecast by Ross Thompson american presents wonderfully alert poems

presents wonderfully alert poems

As part of a fifty year anniversary and celebration

and from Ian Dury’s iconic first album

`have been underused in English since the seventeenth century (with some notable exceptions)'

this poet uses run-on lines and counter rhythms to allow the rhymes to be the undersong of the poem rather than its striking measure

The Slipping Forecast by Ross Thompson american presents wonderfully alert poemsPublished 2nd April 2025. In his second collection, Northern Irish poet Ross Thompson reflects upon disappearance: the vanishing acts of people, places and the past itself through fire, frost or forgetting. The Slipping Forecast is a book haunted by spectres of the unsaid and unrequited, by phantoms of the nearly was and the could have been, a book that inhabits the in between states of memory, dream and woozy post surgery anaesthetic where liminal