Ade Jackson’s first collection of poetry takes a panoptic view of life, developed through a wide range of themes that probe, loop and intersect the causes and effects of being. His intense, luminous language strides across the page on taut, cloven hooves.
In these poems, darkness is harnessed in subtle humour and
Jackson's sharp observations are, quite simply - and in the strictest sense
of the word - brilliant.
‘These poems perform turns and tricks, teasing language
for its musical qualities, expressing and transforming impulses into richly
imagined phrases and constructions. Erotic love, grief, loss and memory feature
in elegies and love poems, puns and hallucinations - lyrical and strong yet
laced with black humour and sardonic wit.’ Eleanor Rees
