'Trap Landscape charts a course, trick-riding through poetic topography. From cubist paddocks approaching Paris, past council roadworks, and on to the terraced slopes of Hvar, Nicholas Powell surveys the sacred miscellany to find tulips in the chimney, the scenic peaks of the landfill, and rifles in the maize.
'Word play and vernacular collide to re-imagine language in a dreamscape that is by turns pastoral and surreal, ominous and absurd.
'It’s all fun and games until you’re caught in the Trap Landscape.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
'One of the many life-challenging things that poetry can do is to prise open unexpected spaces and take us somewhere entirely unanticipated, whether it be in terms of how we live, how we understand the world, or how we link the fabric of textual utterance with that of our lived experience. These two new poetry collections set about this labour of disruption in very different ways, demonstrating some of the pathways available between poet and reader.' (Introduction)
'One of the many life-challenging things that poetry can do is to prise open unexpected spaces and take us somewhere entirely unanticipated, whether it be in terms of how we live, how we understand the world, or how we link the fabric of textual utterance with that of our lived experience. These two new poetry collections set about this labour of disruption in very different ways, demonstrating some of the pathways available between poet and reader.' (Introduction)
