Mephistopheles by CD Boyland Swimming Pool A rallying cry builds steadily

A rallying cry builds steadily through the book culminating in a moving closing ode to the virtue of sincerity

as we slip our earthly moorings and follow the circling shoal of sea voices into a mesh of sound and light and water – fluid

Five Fifty-Five is Maura Dooley's first new collection since The Silvering (2016)

and has co-edited a collection of essays on poetry archives

at the wheel of a black cab – reveal vivid traffic between the living and the dead

Mephistopheles by CD Boyland Swimming Pool A rallying cry builds steadilyTime to get acquainted with your demons. In the poetry of CD Boyland, they appear in years, days, algorithms, doubles, sickness, fossil fuels and factories. We travel back in time to The Tavern where Marlowe & Goethe shoot daggers at each other and disagree about the fate of Faust. We are called to listen. This collection trades in seven sins: one being the lust for candid selfies; another being sloth, the sin of lying like a snowdrift up against