Ruel Johnson’s often witty attempts to confront the insanity of contemporary Guyana’s race wars and political corruption through the formal coolness of poetry
Whilst the accelerants of complicity and violence seep from these exacting poems
All The Men I Never Married is a powerful collection of deeply thoughtful and deeply felt poetry
Can Donny use his boat skills to cross the busiest shipping channel in the world and make it home
Irish Literary Supplement
Ten Poets Travel to the Dark Side of the Moon Philip Wilson Steer Ruel Johnson’s often witty attemptsLong before we went to the moon, we dreamt of going there, of what it would be like, in every medium from cinema to comic strip. Now, ten brave cosmonauts have resurrected that most rickety, most celestial of technologies the lyric poem as a means of reaching out as far as any of us has ever gone, in a space race from which some of them may never return. What will they find out there, amid the cold craters of the forbidding lunar crust?