with poems that touch on everything from the ‘Tebbitt Test’ and Marvin Gaye to the Black Country
"Poems is a vast slab of a thing
the language woven in its span
—Jeremy Hilton
Somnia by Maria Stadnicka David Constantine with poems that touch onA chisel, a hammer, a lyre; reportage, intimate feelings, quips and criticisms. Maria Stadnickas poems are clusters of consciousness, graphic, material images of our world. Her language assaults, bends, cajoles, thrusts a saber into the darkness of the very language she employs to explore death, degradation, the non recognition of the human individual, war, urban violence, in short, the all too present context of our daily lives. [] What concerns