Slide by Mark Pajak
PBS Recommendation Autumn 2022 Math Jones ’ —John McCullough

’ —John McCullough

lies close to John Wilkinson's childhood home

that reveal Roger Robinson’s capacity to tell involving stories and capture the essence of a character in a few words

is in writing poems which are both ‘plentiful and fragile like a crystal…balancing on the line between the human soul and the universe

and there is more for us to gain

Slide by Mark Pajak<br> <b> PBS Recommendation Autumn 2022</b> Math Jones ’ —John McCullough'Fresh, urgent, alive genius.' Patience Agbabi This assured and arresting first collection moves deftly and with purpose into private, hidden places a locked shed, the dark of a battery farm, a murky riverbed, a late night bar to show, unflinchingly and in cinematic detail, what we might otherwise choose not to see. Sight is both a gift and curse, of course: given or taken away in poems of windows and curtains, torches and blindfolds, and yet here