Anomaly

by Jamie McKendrick

In a period when nations are retracting within their borders, the vivid and intricate poems of Jamie McKendrick's new collection Anomaly are especially timely, and speak of a fragile legacy of openness and interconnectedness. The poems playfully twin Bologna and Bombay, the South Downs and the Camargue, the imagined and the actual. Often intensely visual, here more than ever, McKendrick's poems engage with artists as various as the Taviani brothers, Snchez Cotn, Bhupen Khakhar and Giacometti, and are as alive to the sea-bound cityscapes of Liverpool and Venice as to the rocky landscapes of Sardinia and Slovenia.

Genres: Poetry

Hardcover

Published November 1, 2018

Reviews

[Jayant Kashyap · Rating 3 out of 5]

I like the humour in this book, and how well it seems McKendrick can carry it—I’d have loved more coherence (or perhaps I’m just missing the point, after all!)