Swimming With Horses by Nicholas Hogg #Irishpoetry as companion

as companion

Glasgow Review of Books The cover design is based on that for the Soviet Museum Bulletin published in 1930 by the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow

and sun that language flails in trying to recreate

Saphra’s precisely-tuned writing ranges through tones of dark humour

What followed has been even more destructive and disorientating: wars

Swimming With Horses by Nicholas Hogg #Irishpoetry as companionSwimming with Horses by Nicholas Hogg gathers poems of travel, witness, and working class memory across a wide geographical and historical reach, moving from a Pembroke College room once occupied by Ted Hughes to the radioactive deep time of a nuclear waste repository. Hogg's poetry is preoccupied with reading and writing as acts of preservation against war, extinction, and erasure, returning often to its literary inheritances in Burnside, Drake,