The Release by Jeremy Hooker
PBS Wildcard Spring 2022 John Fennelly 'All The Bleak Chippies' (included

'All The Bleak Chippies' (included in Space Odes) won the Ledbury Poetry Prize

Words are stalked through the ages by their roots and

stamped beer barrels and medical potions

A much-anticipated debut collection from the supremely talented Samantha Walton

The Release by Jeremy Hooker <br> <b> PBS Wildcard Spring 2022</b> John Fennelly 'All The Bleak Chippies' (includedSince Welsh Journal (2001), I have periodically adopted a form of writing that juxtaposes prose and poetry. The Release is a work of this kind, in which diary entries and poems are combined and interact. Roughly speaking, the diary records experience that generates the poems, or, to use another metaphor, the poems disclose their roots in the prose. Between June 2019 and August 2020, I spent four long periods in hospital, initially in Prince Charles