The Last Weather Observer by Matthew Rice Tony Frazer from the unimaginably archaic age

from the unimaginably archaic age before Homer to the various afterlives of Latin right into the present era and to Sappho on Inishbofin consorting with Irish poets of today’—Fleur Adcock

without sacrificing a note of its urgency or remarkable skill

' New Yorker

Jane Routh’s distinctive poems investigate memory and the changes which overtake us all

The Last Weather Observer by Matthew Rice Tony Frazer from the unimaginably archaic agethis is gorgeous, subtle and heartfelt work. Matthew Rice can take a single memory, carve it out of the infinitely re configurable past, then light and shoot it so that it resembles heaven or hell. The pause at the red light, the school canteen, those we lose, those we keep, then lose; the connections which might arise from a song or a video game. Transporting stuff Luke Kennard These poems are attuned to threat, loss, disappointment, resolve. A tense