WITCHWITCH by Rebecca Tams is a raw, strange book of poems that merges feminist exploration with occult expression and ecological language. At turns lyrical, philosophical and obscene, Tamss astonishing debut evokes the sexual prowess of nature as an organism that swallows and consumes. These are poems that unsettle the reader, taking them to dark, magical places where earth and blood, politics and pornography, intermingle; they celebrate poetry as a

In When Love Is Not Enough

as the major pyramids collapse

Kat Pomfret – author of Paradise Jazz

they brought me your torn clothes

• Jeff Nosbaum

not least the position of a white man in a Jamaica whose decolonisation has been in part about discovering its black identity

after running out of the apartment to try to escape assault

Inside it is warm

Most of these poems are written in free verse

the Fattest Woman in the World and an assortment of ‘freak show’ artists

Combining the themes of corruption

who now lives in Missouri