Small Theatres

The world’s / face like a / picture plane. / Its space / offered to the / eye as a / colour might be.

In these poems, everyday occurrences – an imprint in grass, crumbs in a wrapper, the sound of a thermostat engaging – are opportunities for thinking through close attention. Small Theatres is the latest instalment in Mark Truscott’s exploration of our perceptions and feelings of separation from the world around us.

Truscott has mobilized the materiality of language, pushing it into territorie...