Words from the Wall by Adam Thorpe Christine Marendon the problem of poverty and

the problem of poverty and the problem of war

and Laird's most remarkable work to date

somehow manages to build a monument for those Caribbean people who fought in that war

from his debut to the latest

Words from the Wall by Adam Thorpe Christine Marendon the problem of poverty andThese remarkable poems are despatches from the edges of experience: from the remote coast of northern Iceland where tree trunks and dead whales lie beached, to the furthest outposts of the Roman empire in the title poem From the very limit of the world, Flavius sends you greetings, my lord. The collection is concerned with borders and brinks the liminal spaces where distinctions blur between outer and inner, known and unknown, between what is familiar