Please Don't Bomb the Ghost of My Brother by Julian Stannard Rebecca Watts public and private

public and private

a woman who was abused as a child but who committed suicide before her own account of what had taken place was published

A gasp of air

the deftness with which she can work that vision into a world we can marvel at

Please Don't Bomb the Ghost of My Brother by Julian Stannard Rebecca Watts public and privateJulian Stannard has been described as the poet of cabaret. His poems sing and weep in equal measure; a poetry of wretchedness and hilarity, of discombobulation and the bizarre. In his new collection a dead brother returns on a white horse, a musical stag slips off to New York, the Kray Twins reappear, a summer pudding is carried across a heath, a pair of buttocks escapes their owner, a couple makes love on a rain soaked stoop, the Mongols catapult