Gerard Woodward's poetry has long been admired for its sharp and unflinching eye its fearless surrealism its blacker-than-black humour and its ability to find a little abyss in any detail no matter how innocuous or domestic. Here his considerations of trampolines bird-tables and lightbulbs will leave the reader unable to regard those things in quite the same way again; they will also find science-fiction novels compressed to a few stanzas strange potted biographies and lists of edicts from long-dead tyrants. However The Seacunny finds this inimitable voice extend itself in new and unexpected directions with the poet turning to the natural world and to human relationships in ways that are affecting as they are surprising. This is a book of astonishing range and declares a new lyric direction in Woodward's poetry. . Language: English