Wood Circle

John Wilkinson

Published in Amsterdam by Phil Baber's The Last Books, Wood Circle is, according to poet Andrea Brady, "one of Wilkinson’s most powerful poetic books" – "each line of this astonishing collection offers a new analysis of the earth’s fever dreams. If ‘None had loved enough what / they must find by losing’, in this book’s moratorium we can find time to remember what we never loved enough. These poems sing for mortal creatures, some human, and collect their leavings: skin, bees, infants, fruits, tires. Seared by the world and everything in it, Wilkinson’s poems are radiant, damaging, a consuming memorial fire."