In Search of Dustie-Fute by David Kinloch Sarajevo Roses communing in the middle

communing in the middle

each etched carefully with the different

lively assortment of the work

As well as selecting favourite poems from the trilogy – readers’ and writers’ choices as well as his own favourites – editor Neil Astley provides background notes on the poets and poems

In Search of Dustie-Fute by David Kinloch Sarajevo Roses communing in the middleWho is Dustie Fute? A vagrant, a hawker, a poet. A dustyfooted Scottish Orpheus. A stranger, a migrant, a ghost. In his search for Dustie Fute, David Kinloch begins amid the Parisian floods of 1910: with the waters rising, a lonely giraffe speaks from the abandoned zoo, witness to what seems the end of the world. Other animals chime in, Dustie Futes all, a hooved and humped chorus of watery sages. Elsewhere, two young college dudes quote Rilke at each