Fast

'You were sleeping when they found you, curled in a ditch, long summer grasses bending down to brush your senseless face.' These poems of loss, sacrifice, love and renewal look at the strangeness of the world with a wide-eyed wonder. Using startlingly muscular, taught and vivid language, "Fast" cuts through the sentimental media-babble of today and offers instead a disturbingly clear, yet ultimately compassionate gaze. Whether tackling child murder, a biblical resurrection, a visit to a supermarket or the transit of Venus, Dunkerley re-makes the world so that his readers can see it anew. A number of these poems were first published in "Irish Pages", "The Fiddlehead" and "Sussex Seams".