Acoustic Shadows by John Matthias Julia Deakin ‘The John Peel of poetry

‘The John Peel of poetry

The week after the election Bill Herbert and Andy Jackson decided to chart the responses of those unacknowledged legislators of the world – poets – to the new dispensation

Following the completion of the Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus

internationally recognised as one of Britain’s leading contemporary poets

under the constellations of aircraft holding patterns

Acoustic Shadows by John Matthias Julia Deakin ‘The John Peel of poetryAcoustic shadowssound suppressed in such a way that even General Grant was deceived by one at the Battle of Iuka in the American Civil Warcomplicate the lives of many figures appearing in these poems, including that of the young John Matthias at his grandfathers house on Iuka Drive in Columbus, Ohio in the 1950s. This book, Matthiass first volume of entirely new poems since Complayntes for Doctor Neuro (Shearsman, 2016), includes a group of short