Small Birds Singing - Matthew Welton

The world we encounter through Matthew Welton's poetry is one where kitchen radios, coffee cups and bicycle bells lead us to bramble blossom, rubbly clouds and paving slabs overrun with ivy. Such images are layered with reflections on how the things around us manifest a kind of 'thinginess' - as Welton puts it - and how this creates the context for our thoughts. Small Birds Singing is a book-length poem of fragments, drawn from a year's walking through one city's green spaces. Over the course of... Zobrazit více