Slow Puncture

Miles burrows, the master of humorous, oddly profound poetic ‘ sketches’ and dramas, returns with a new book of what he calls ‘ incidental verse’ , written in England and abroad, concerned with sickness and ageing as drama, where clinical situations are reflected in a series of vignettes staged between reality and dream.

The poems’ characteristically mordant observations alight on subjects from a child’ s death to a shaman performing a ritual ceremony for the journey between Heaven and Earth...