Sweet, Like Rinky-Dink by Mark Waldron Jenny Lewis and others

and others

including a quietly devastating central sequence

Liz Berry and Hollie McNish to first-time published writers from home and abroad

This sixth collection by one of Carcanet's most celebrated Irish poets gathers together lyrics poems musing on history

which is presented here with full-colour reproductions of the poems in their original composition on scraps of paper

Sweet, Like Rinky-Dink by Mark Waldron Jenny Lewis and othersSometimes metaphysical, sometimes apparently confessional, sometimes challenging, often hilarious, Mark Waldron's poems take you by the arm and usher you in to a dark light, funny sad, silly serious world which is exactly what the actual world looks like if you creep up on it and take it by surprise. As human beings living in society were supposed to keep what we really think hidden, but the poems of Sweet, like Rinky Dink want to look at the