Dirt Rich by Graeme Richardson Rishi Dastidar ' – Mark Lanegan

' – Mark Lanegan

 The Herald (Scotland)

apparently improvisational pieces that contribute so much to this book’s extraordinary brio and style

and abrupt tonal pivots that echo the dislocation of memory and the loops of online life

where adolescence is dragged into adulthood

Dirt Rich by Graeme Richardson Rishi Dastidar ' – Mark LaneganIn Dirt Rich, Graeme Richardson digs deep into his past, from a childhood in the Nottinghamshire coalfield, to the hatch match dispatch duties of a Church of England priest, to work in an Archaeology Department in Germany. These are grounded, earthy poems Born in a mess, we die in a mess and here is the dirt we dish, the mud we sling, the treasure we bury. Love and loss are treated with humour and startling frankness. Here are life's trade offs "do we