Restricted Movement Martin Rowson

Restricted Movement Martin RowsonThis explosive collection of poems documents life as a daughter trying to support her artist father who is overseas struggling with dementia and drug addiction during a pandemic. Interspersed with the frantic cycle of overdoses, escapes from care, disappearances and urgent international phone calls are moments of reflection on her father's artwork and her seaside surroundings.

The author asks us to look at our brains (and implicitly ourselves and our lives

Blind Spots is a masterclass of inventive

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Hudibrastic quatrains designed to lower the tone and cut everyone down to size

brought forth by a voice that oscillates between humorous and plaintive tones — “I invent stories

“Performance poetry’s key revivalist

where they have met the kindness of strangers as well as the anti-immigrant rhetoric of opportunist and neo-Fascist politicians

a leading spirit in his country’s Bolivarian revolution and a prominent supporter of President Hugo Chávez (who once invited him to serve as Minister of Culture)

an old man whose memories go back to the Morant Bay rebellion of 1865

Kevin Simmonds’s poems travel across his native United States and all over the world – from a Deep South spiritual’s lamentation

Four days after Nick Harman was seven

2005) was shortlisted for the 2006 Strong Award