The Third City by James Peake Martin Crucefix all the more urgently so

all the more urgently so as he grows older

She is a Barbican Young Poet and a Roundhouse Poetry Collective alum

for tastes and sounds

warts and all

a genre-defying novelistic text that beautifully evokes the people and places of our lives—the spaces of work

The Third City by James Peake Martin Crucefix all the more urgently soPublished 21st April 2025. In The Third City, his most remarkable collection to date, James Peake once more offers us his unique combination of dream like fluency and intellectual rigour. New and returning readers will discover an even more expansive poet in these pages, one who in poem after poem uncovers our capacity to love in full knowledge of the odds. Here Peake confirms his reputation for "pin sharp and trance like poems' (Wild Court) which