Discover the surprising lives and lines of writers neglected amongst the moss-covered monuments of Nunhead Cemetery: from the 'Laureate of the Babies' to a New Zealander soldier-poet to those who chronicled London at the height of her industrial powers
Rainer Maria Rilke’s Duino Elegies
high-brown Nanette Hinckson
ripple their grey on grey with the slightest touch of my hand
“There is nobody quite like Almond writing in adults’ or children’s fiction today
Rocksong Paul Perry Discover the surprising lives andRocksong is a shamelessly baroque ride through the all nadirs and summits of the contemporary queer. It's a decadent book, where decadence isn't a cipher for self indulgence, but a fierce and fugitive resistance. As Audre Lorde writes 'We survived and survival breeds desire for more self'. Or, in the glowing neon precincts of Rocksong, more selves, plural. These poems flirt and confront in turns, they seduce and attack, they are tender and grotesque.