The Fetch Cherry Potts

The Fetch Cherry Potts"His poetry is uncanny in the true sense: a place of unnerving strangeness where you feel finally at home." Luke Kennard Gregory Leadbetters first full collection of poems, The Fetch, brings together poems that reach through language to the mystery of our being, giving voice to silence and darkness, illuminating the unseen. With their own rich alchemy, these poems combine the sensuous and the numinous, the lyric and the mythic. Ranging from invocation

a travelogue of land and soul unravelling the complex carnage of our redacted histories

fluorescent tubes and heaps of plastic bottles

guerrillas

A Lecture upon the Bat

"Shifting in time and cutting the social classes of Cardiff

and by Hanif Kureishi as "Magnificent

Translation has often been a sort of smuggling

their happy youth

but who wish he’d be less marmoreal

haunting stories unfold

Ounsi El-Hage

Marilyn Hacker - one of the best mediators between contemporary French and Anglo-American poetry