The land of green ginger - Antony Rowland

The work in this collection occupies the exciting middle ground between mainstream and avant-garde poetry. It pushes the monologue form further than it's ever been before, featuring the history of the beard recounted to a headless cavalier, a sibyl doomed to hairdressing in perpetuity and an academic obsessed with the power of 19th century barnets. This collection also contains a gastronomic edge, with a eulogy to the pie, an incident from WWI recounted through a tansy-cake, a diatribe against cucumbers and an elegy for Pontefract's pomfret cakes.