Slim Volume

A slim volume of verse, like a bicycle, offers us new and exciting and sometimes terrifying ways of seeing the everyday world. James Brown's eighth collection of poems begins in childhood and moves through education, jobs and the essential pointless activities that occupy our lives, before arriving in a post-apocalyptic future. These poems observe with bemusement and distressed humour. Sometimes they splurge; sometimes they hardly speak. Brown is at his best when he claims to have nothing to say.