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The China Shop Pictures ranges widely in time, space and subject matter, encompassing Jacobite wine glasses, pedagogical horses, a Japanese invention for walking on water, and a medley of viewpoints both famous and anonymous-from Virgil and Gérard de Nerval to a woman who's in love with "the monkey they left on the moon" and a man who complains (unfairly) to a sales assistant that the umbrella he's bought has a design fault.
About the author
Robert Saxton was born in Nottingham in 1952. He lives in north London and is currently a freelance editor and writer. He is the author of six previous books of poetry: from Enitharmon, The
Promise Clinic (1994); from Carcanet/OxfordPoets, Manganese (2003), Local Honey (2007) and Hesiod's Calendar (2010); from Shearsman, The China Shop Pictures (2012); and from Angle Shades Press, Six-way Mirror (2016). He is also represented in Faber's Poetry Introduction 7 anthology. In 2001 he won the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association's poetry prize for 'The Nightingale Broadcasts'.
