If You Want Thunder Karen McNeil Paul Durcan

Paul Durcan

‘As my father can no longer cross the bridge into my world

and indiscretion sets her hurtling through the dark

and portrait poems of greedy politicians

and I was writing myself out of a hole I thought that actually was writing myself into a hole I think and Other Poems came as I was writing to a joyful bigger and bigger and bigger inflating when a TN or Star is dying it gets bigger in bigger and that’s how you know it’s nearly expired it comes colossal how much writing was found to be on the right size size of what passes through me when my send my voice out what comes back what happens to other people’s voices inside me what kind of sieve I am             from ‘explanatory notes with no fingers’ Away From Me is the highly-anticipated second collection from poet and novelist Caleb Klaces

If You Want Thunder Karen McNeil Paul DurcanRuth Valentine's tenth collection encompasses the tragedies of the public world civil wars in Syria and Sudan, knife crime in North London, the Iraq Iran war and our private griefs. At the heart of the book is an extraordinary alphabetical sequence about the Grenfell Tower dead and the society that allowed them to die. Its a book about the morality of politics and the mortality of us all, a study in remembrance and forgetting, about the indifferent