After the Rehearsals

Having received praise for his recent work 'Human Archaeology' - "a compelling exploration of the meaning of memory and history", "an interesting, special form of poetic plate-spinning" - Ian Gouge's latest book is a shift into new territory. "After The Rehearsals" is a prose poem narrative in which the poems - although they stand on their own - are akin to chapters in a work of fiction. Reading them sequentially draws the reader into the lives of the book's characters. Writing in this way,...