The Vulture by Gerard Woodward James Keery and its blend of humanity

and its blend of humanity and power make it one of the best first collections of poetry to come out of America in years

encounters with ‘Crap Builders’

weaving his themes and imagery into a kind of baroque music

Her new book zones in on two great under-regarded figures to whom Jamaican music owes a substantial debt: Sister Mary Ignatius and Anita 'Margarita' Mahfood

The Vulture by Gerard Woodward James Keery and its blend of humanityThe vulture, the presiding genius of Gerard Woodwards collection, is at once sympathetic and awful, intimate and other. Woodward naturally positions himself at uncomfortable borders and thresholds, and in doing so alerts us to the flimsiness of the conceits of home, of family and human culture. Many poets have challenged our lazy habit of addressing nature though the pathetic fallacy; few have had the nerve to consciously embrace it as a subversive