Isle Full of Noises

Isle Full of Noises, Kevin Densley's sixth collection, has everything you would expect from this witty, allusive poet - wry observations on the intersection of low and high culture, biting academic satire, rollicking yarns from the underbelly of history - but with a new, fascinating twist: an intense emphasis on the physicality of everything. Sound, particularly, leaps in fizzing profusion from every page.The swish of severed heads, childhood fish lifting and slapping out their names, the h...