Nick Makoha - Kingdom of Gravity Forward Shortlist Enitharmon Press bending poetic form through fragment

bending poetic form through fragment

but constantly different and effortlessly enthralling

in cars and on foot

The lotus root is also an aphrodisiac

of the cacophony of living

Nick Makoha - Kingdom of Gravity <b>Forward Shortlist</b> Enitharmon Press bending poetic form through fragmentShortlisted for the Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection Nick Makoha's poems animate in the space between story and song. His sentences unwind full of axe heads, shanks, short rope, blades, some poison and all its animal understanding. His imagery and insights are strung along an electrified syntax. He writes, You will try to make sense of the terrain, its limits on reality, its secondary sounds the crickets speaking pure rhetoric. I find the