Talk a Blue Streak by Lila Matsumoto Alan Buckley Throughout the collection

Throughout the collection

mary frances invites us to find our way though a mysterious dark and dreamlike world

James Kearns’ debut is a Chekhovian metanarrative: phenomenological

' New Statesman 'Among Armitage's talents has always been his ability to set up easy-going conversational rhythms

poems that send daylight into the dark that threatens to overwhelm us – and could not be more necessary to the times in which we live

Talk a Blue Streak by Lila Matsumoto Alan Buckley Throughout the collectionPublished 21st May 2026 Talk a Blue Streak, Lila Matsumoto's third collection, is an innovative experiment in poetic memoir and story telling. With a rigorous commitment to artifice, the interlinked sequences trace the formative impressions of a childhood and teenage years spent in America encountering its language and customs: on road trips, in student dorms, with alternative music and junk food. Hugely pleasurable and often very funny, Talk a Blue