Eccolo: Poems by Hal Coase PRE-ORDER Bloodaxe Books When he died at the

When he died at the age of twenty-five

an exploding car

through the poems he wrote during his first months in America

The translator

Eccolo: Poems by Hal Coase PRE-ORDER Bloodaxe Books When he died at thePublished 31st July 2025. Available for pre order. 'Eccolo' considers what it means to exist in the pause, between history and the present, home and afar. I begin with the minimal parts of language letters and phonemes and then work to build outwards towards a tapestry that can take in a landscape and its history. In the first sequence, 'Animal Alphabets', I try to imagine language as a creaturely thing: considering its rhythms, customs, and habitats