Drypoint by Jamie McKendrick Olivia Gatwood pylons and powerlines hum

pylons and powerlines hum

often inextricably bound up with the pain it can cause ("I keep loving you like an old bruise / still tender") but expressed in such rich and startling language

and which describe different ways of falling and belonging to the earth

These poems are staggeringly tender

Drypoint by Jamie McKendrick Olivia Gatwood pylons and powerlines humJamie McKendrick's Drypoint depicts the turbulent present with incisive detail while often taking us back to an equally conflictual Biblical or classical world. Acute and stoical in tone, these poems transport us by bus or ferry or ghostly Rolls Royce to the cobbled streets of Ferrara, the once Greek port of Smyrna, the bombed acres of Liverpool and Mariupol, and to places not to be found on any map, places where 'North was south, being lost like