The Jazz Age: An Entertainment by Aidan Semmens Ruth McIlroy ‘which is more or less

‘which is more or less everything

kneads little loaves of laver bread

the heroic modesty of the double bass

The linguistic innovations of that novel

Writers like Charles Simic and Matthew Sweeney seem like good reference points for this writing

The Jazz Age: An Entertainment by Aidan Semmens Ruth McIlroy ‘which is more or lessSemmens startling new collection is a sequence of surreal fantasies in which famous figures from (mostly) the past sometimes singly, sometimes in unlikely pairings make incongruous, anachronistic appearances in modern settings and situations, or in episodes from times not their own. Incongruous and laugh out loud funny, the poems delight the reader, yet much darker elements are at play. Salt Publishing