all three sequences chart ‘extreme experience with a dazzling excess’ (Deryn Rees-Jones)
'well it's a step in the right direction'
combining a troubadour’s musicality with full grasp of the moment
and covers closely relevant historical contexts
thriving or long-since shut
The Last Weather Observer by Matthew Rice John Fuller all three sequences chart ‘extremethis is gorgeous, subtle and heartfelt work. Matthew Rice can take a single memory, carve it out of the infinitely re configurable past, then light and shoot it so that it resembles heaven or hell. The pause at the red light, the school canteen, those we lose, those we keep, then lose; the connections which might arise from a song or a video game. Transporting stuff Luke Kennard These poems are attuned to threat, loss, disappointment, resolve. A tense