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POETRY BANK CHOICE. Mark Waldron's debut collection "The Brand New Dark" is a book about sex, eyes, eggs, dogs, death and sausages. Funny, dark, disconcerting and moving, this entertaining collection of accessible poems is a book for all the people who don't like poetry as well as for the people who do.
List of contents
- Underneath the Gone Sky
- For Them There's Nothing
- Dog
- At the Official Function, Captain Green
- The Very Slow Train
- Emap in Australian Review
- Carrier
- Carrier II
- Carrier III (Peace)
- Carrier IV (In port)
- As a Boy
- The King is in His Counting House
- Welcome to Disneyworld
- The Sheets and Pillowcases
- Early this morning
- The Well Dressed Street
- My Friend Marcie is on the Insensate Beach
- Without Me, You're Nothing
- There is So Much Green Idling in the Trees
- Poor Derek
- The Run
- I was Writing Recently on the Subject of Mice
- Look, From Where I'm Sitting at the Bar
- The Sausage Factory
- Be Careful
- 23
- The Bears are Skiing through the Trees
- This is For You
- Question 2
- The Luxury Husbands are Working
- George Said, Thinking is What the Dead Do
- This is Me Speaking
- From the Shore
- The Sophisticated Odour of Love
- Microscopic Autumn
- The Barman Turned
- Baghdad Lockdown as Troops Hunt for Britons
- Gunter is a Medium Sized Bird
- The One You See is Only a Replica
- In the Space Between the Curtain
- Entropy
- Yes, Everything You Need is Here
- We Think We See Richness, Said Dougal
- He's Face Down in the Lake
- Listen
- In the Park
- It's in Black and White
- Juice
- I Called the Plumber to Say, the Lavatory Does Flush
- In the Garden, Birds in Feather Masks
- The Dining Table
- Their Lobes, Like Earrings, Hang
- Would You Excuse me Madam
- I Suppose You Could
- Look, my Love
- His Hand is in My Head
- There's a Small, Blurry Dog Jumping Up and Down and Barking
- It's Hard Work, Pulling the Ghost Out of a Man
- The Brand New Dark is Getting In
- Be Quiet,
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.
