Some Circular Walks in Sussex takes us on a tour of surreal and disturbing collisions of the urban and the rural, of past and present, of public and personal and of conventions and their subversions. All in very well made poems of analytic imagination and telling insight.
Some Circular Walks in Sussex, The New Cosmopolitan, The Moon in the
Man, Whatever you have to do to pay the rent, Snouts and Tongues, The Floods,
A Lack of Balance, The Birds, Kebab Town, Killing a Wren, Clymping Hare,
Waiting Room, Magpies, Dark Matter, Cracks, Preparing Walls, Fullest Moon,
Sea Skaters Neukuhren Christmas 1938.
Martin Myers lives and writes in West Sussex. He is a freelance writer and researcher whose work has often focused on the lives of Gypsies in the UK, the education of marginalized communities and the music of The Fall. He is the co-author (with Kalwant Bhopal) of Insiders, Outsiders and Others: Gypsies and Identity, the first book to provide a theoretical account of Gypsy identity in Britain. His early poetry was published in the northeast of England by the Echo Room Press and has also appeared in many magazines, on BBC Radio and the Tyneside Metro. Some Circular Walks in Sussex is his first collection in 25 years.
