Reaper in a Headlock by Simon Alderwick Deryn Rees-Jones Cover artwork by Sanna Räsänen

Cover artwork by Sanna Räsänen

University of Birmingham

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Two: it tells the story of Brexit

Reaper in a Headlock by Simon Alderwick Deryn Rees-Jones Cover artwork by Sanna RäsänenReaper in a Headlock by Simon Alderwick is a wild, tender, and tonally agile collection that traverses grief, fatherhood, absurdity and cultural exhaustion with restless invention. Framed by elegy and shaped by wit, the poems move between lyrical observation and comedic deflation, evoking the solemn and the ridiculous in equal measure. Alderwick's voice is deeply human"unafraid to mourn, laugh, lash out, or play"and his formal range includes anecdote,