Nicholas JOHNSON
Cleave
£6.50 pbk
48 pp 210x148 mm
publ Oct 2002.
Cased & lettered edition with additional holographic material £25.
A work of reportage & sarcasm on the Foot & Mouth crisis.
A meshing of prose & poems that regards Devon and much of the North-East devastated, emptied, by the first plague of the twenty-first century.
Cleave has a preface by Tertia Longmire: 'And I Because of You'
"His poetry carries us into a super-reality of its own" (David Gascoyne)