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The Itchy Sea is an extraordinarily vivid collection of poems which are, above all, entertaining. The poems each have a kind of freshness and cut-through that will hold the general reader's attention. Their concerns are sex, death, the soul and a chocolate car.
List of contents
- Contents
- The Blown
- The Bead
- Crocodile
- Were I to jump
- The Lifecycle of the Fly
- One day, many years from now
- Paris
- Marcie Outside
- Marcie in the Dock, Up for Being Juicy
- WWII Marcie
- Marcie is Half-Woken
- The Chocolate Car
- His Life Lost Him
- The Arctic Circle is an Ironical Hot-Spot
- Some Time Afterwards
- The Limpet
- A Fire Itself is Quiet
- Everything
- Your Hand
- The Warehouse
- Take a Gulp of Air
- I Can Use my Mouth
- So, I heard and also dreamed,
- Mallards
- Of Plants
- To change one dog to one cat
- And see
- Iron
- I stood, preposterous
- The Moon
- Dawn
- Rooms
- The Attributes of Cutlery
- I could certainly see you better,
- Of Course, We've All Seen This Kind of Thing Before
- When You Do This Over and Over
- Lion
- Look at the trees which carry on regardless,
- Defenestration
- Well yes, where we interface
- The darking sky
- Skin is the callus
- If I was,
- Inside
- Observe the likeness of a slab of beef
- The Sea
- Beef is Made of Meat and Victory
- The Petard
- Make Use of My Poem in Any Way You Like
- Taste
- Rude
- And there he is again,
- Grub
- Poem for Us
- In the end,
- Uncertain Voices Roost
- The Porcelain Dog
About the author
Mark Waldron's first book,
The Brand New Dark was published by Salt Publishing in 2008. His work appears in
Identity Parade, New British and Irish Poets published by Bloodaxe in 2010. He lives in east London with his wife and son.
Summary
The Itchy Sea is an extraordinarily vivid collection of poems which are, above all, entertaining. The poems each have a kind of freshness and cut-through that will hold the general reader's attention. Their concerns are sex, death, the soul and a chocolate car.
