Handling David Tipton

Handling David TiptonThe poems in Handling, Jack Thackers debut gathering, display an extraordinary gift for describing the sights and sounds of farming life through an exact and tactile evocation of daily work, implements and activities. Childhood memories and seasonal tasks, such as planting vegetables, shearing sheep, and ploughing fields, are handled in a language that is at once strange, familiar, and as rhythmically measured as it is inventive. The descriptive poems

Norris introduces a strong metaphysical element which makes the poems

Not only does he interpret and bring to life the Inquisition files but he reveals with compassion the final years and months

a poetry of anomalies

Ranging in form from sound poems to collaged spam email

Roger Allen: Essay Possibilities of meaning and delicious ambiguities

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mediums and ages

Teemu Manninen is a poet and literary critic based in Tampere

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She has gone on to write film scripts

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