Wideawake Field: Poems

About this book

The chairs have come in and the crisp yellow thwock of the ball being hit says somehow now that its fall Im a memory of myself. My whole old life-- I mourn you sometimes in places you would have been. --October The poems in this fierce debut are an attempt to record what matters. As a reporters dispatches they concern themselves with different forms of desolation: what it means to feel at home in wrecked places and then to experience loneliness and dislocation in the familiar. The collection arcs between internal and external worlds--the disappointment of returning the guilt and thrill of departure unexpected encounters in blighted places-- and with ruthless observations etched in the sparest lines the poems in Wideawake Field sharply and movingly navigate the poles of home and away.