Reaper in a Headlock by Simon Alderwick Gaia Holmes these carefully crafted lines leave

these carefully crafted lines leave the reader mulling over our interaction with – and overuse of – the natural world

and it comes to you from me

has its own distinctive weathers

Paula Meehan’s extraordinary new collection is both a controlled experiment with the challenge of form and

Already making a big impact on the British poetry scene

Reaper in a Headlock by Simon Alderwick Gaia Holmes these carefully crafted lines leaveReaper in a Headlock by Simon Alderwick is a wild, tender, and tonally agile collection that traverses grief, fatherhood, absurdity and cultural exhaustion with restless invention. Framed by elegy and shaped by wit, the poems move between lyrical observation and comedic deflation, evoking the solemn and the ridiculous in equal measure. Alderwick's voice is deeply human"unafraid to mourn, laugh, lash out, or play"and his formal range includes anecdote,