On the Dialler

On the Dialler is the poet Aaron Ingram's first collect of poems. These poems are largely the product of the physical space in which they were written-a Call Centre. As physical spaces go, the demands forced upon me did require of me a particular type of endurance whilst in the pursuit of income. That, in my time between calls, I was able to draft the bones of these poems is a far greater reward than any financial recompense for telephone operator services rendered. Each poem sits in the chronological order of its original rendering. Whilst each section-or Part, as it were-denotes an undisclosed block of time, the duration of each is immaterial; as, the implicit feeling of one journeying onwards to a final destination is (seemingly) an over-arching feature of the collection, when treated as a whole-at least this is both my hope and intention.