A Straight Up Giant by Mark Waldron Keston Sutherland violence and grief

violence and grief

the sinking of the Mona lifeboat in 1959 and the long

for the boys living as minibus conductors or chewing-gum sellers

as second self

like the worlds they touch on

A Straight Up Giant by Mark Waldron Keston Sutherland violence and griefSerious, comic, brave, cowardly, engaged, disengaged, urgent, unurgent, chattering chiffchaff, talking horses, unpretentious, pretentious, all of God's creatures are here. There's also an almost but not quite dialogue between the poems and the laconic (and sometimes furious) musings of the passages which punctuate them. There are a series of fairytale poems, and others which give unfettered voice to Marcie, a character who has appeared in Mark