Seeing Stars by Simon Armitage Toby Martinez de las Rivas Evan Jones describes as ‘a

Evan Jones describes as ‘a world journey through London’s exiled and émigré artists

Caley's vocabulary pricks his readers to keep the action anachronistic and contemporary… the book is a Waste Land of sorts

on Border

they compare a farmer harvesting to a recipe for Victoria sponge

De Rokha is relatively unknown outside Chile

Seeing Stars by Simon Armitage Toby Martinez de las Rivas Evan Jones describes as ‘aSimon Armitage's new collection is by turns a voice and a chorus: a hyper vivid array of dramatic monologues, allegories, parables and tall tales. Here comes everybody: Snoobie and Carla, Lippincott, Wittmann, Yoshioka, Bambuck, Dr Amsterdam, Preminger. The man whose wife drapes a border curtain across the middle of the marital home; the English astronaut with a terrestrial outlook on life; an orgiastic cast of unreconstructed pie worshipers at a