Reaper in a Headlock by Simon Alderwick Jay Ramsay artists and photographers

artists and photographers

or on that central void always facing me

With courage

is a book about nothing

Reaper in a Headlock by Simon Alderwick Jay Ramsay artists and photographersReaper in a Headlock by Simon Alderwick is a wild, tender, and tonally agile collection that traverses grief, fatherhood, absurdity and cultural exhaustion with restless invention. Framed by elegy and shaped by wit, the poems move between lyrical observation and comedic deflation, evoking the solemn and the ridiculous in equal measure. Alderwick's voice is deeply human"unafraid to mourn, laugh, lash out, or play"and his formal range includes anecdote,