The war of Leeroy Jenkins' Ear by Joseph Persad Deryn Rees-Jones The poems in facture are

The poems in facture are uncannily cohesive

never-before-seen photos and memorabilia

summoned and contained in small gestures – a hand held

Grief-stricken

major historical events and offering context for his works

The war of Leeroy Jenkins' Ear by Joseph Persad Deryn Rees-Jones The poems in facture areThe War of Leeroy Jenkins' Ear is a restless, intellectually charged sequence that threads a cut off ear through histories of empire, cultural inheritance, and the uneasy mechanics of narrative control. Moving between lyric shards and compact prose blocks, Joseph Persad braids Portobello, Columbus, heritage plaques, complaint systems, and the river Wandle into a language of drift and collision, where place names misbehave and institutional speech