Review
An emerging talent to watch. (Ben Wilkinson
Times Literary Supplement )
Mark Waldron is the most striking and unusual new voice to have emerged in British poetry for some time. (John Stammers )
This is urgent, thought-provoking poetry – one of the most important debuts for a long time. (Clare Pollard
Magma )
This is one of the most original and memorable debut collections for many years. (Roddy Lumsden )
Product Description
The Itchy Sea is an extraordinarily vivid collection of poems which are, above all, entertaining. The poems each have a kind of freshness and cut-through that will hold the reader’s attention in a world that’s full of dazzling distractions. They are a protest against the well-founded idea that poetry has to be dull. Their concerns are sex, death, the soul and a chocolate car. Beneath their shiny surfaces they are an intense but carefree therapy session for all our infantile ids.