Spillway : New and Selected Poems by Ian Pople Alex Stevens and only half mollified by

and only half mollified by the thought that someone else is reading it now

with Brexit in the offing

Mina Gorji's Scale traces life at its limits

Starting out from familiar domestic settings

He welds these to contemporary instances of ecological damage through mining for tin and cobalt

Spillway : New and Selected Poems by Ian Pople Alex Stevens and only half mollified byIan Pople is a man of the world. He has travelled and taught in the UK, Greece, Sudan and Saudi Arabia. His poems explore England, the larger world, and how changing perspectives readjust the sense of England and home. They deal with borders, crossings, closing boundaries. They are about transitions in space and time, the ways life and relationships change and adapt to illness, love, estrangement and loss. The traveller changes identities as he moves,