Quality Control at the Miracle Factory by Patrick Cotter Em Strang has been broadening the canvas

has been broadening the canvas of British poetry for the past 35 years with his mischievous

Knithoard is a closely linked sequence of poems exploring — with lyrical grace and subtlety — the art of knitting

Events and lives are described in sensuous detail

of what we keep

and Anansi

Quality Control at the Miracle Factory by Patrick Cotter Em Strang has been broadening the canvasQuality Control at the Miracle Factory, the fourth full length collection of poems by Irish poet Patrick Cotter, reflects the dark times of its writing, moving with unease through the world. Injustice and brutality are faced unflinchingly while the miracle of survival and endurance is credited and marvelled at, wherever it might occur.