street corners – into sites of intense significance that weigh heavily on the modern mind
the saving grace of love in an otherwise bleak childhood is celebrated through spellbinding visions of nature
through the dizzying landscapes of a country undergoing profound change
He remembers when ‘dragonflies were as common as sunlight / hovering in their own days’ and recalls ‘a house that had been left to its own silence / for half a century’
Bolivia and El Salvador
Feel Good Movie of the Year by Luke Wright Sean O'Brien street corners – into sites'My poor old heart, I've left its drawbridge down' Divorced, and perhaps a little bruised, Luke Wright journeys off the sunken roads of southern England and into himself, pursued by murderous swans, empty car seats, and his father's skeleton clocks. Both brazen and elegiac, these poems pull on the 'tidy hem' of responsible existence, unravelling the banal frustrations of online outrage and ageing friends, and grasping at something 'beyond our squeaky