Floodmeadow by Toby Martinez de las Rivas Ness Owen Through imagery as deep and

Through imagery as deep and tannin-hued as Mercian Hymns

his second Carcanet book (Steep Tea was published in 2015 and chosen as a Best Book of the Year in the Financial Times) and it develops his earlier themes with authority

This is an outstanding

Hilarious and unsettling

Theresa ’s quest to search both the living world and the dead for answers to the purpose and predicament of her existence are a journey worth joining her on

Floodmeadow by Toby Martinez de las Rivas Ness Owen Through imagery as deep andThe Floodmeadow draws us into a seething pastoral where lightning threatens and thunder gathers, pylons and powerlines hum, and steel framed gates sing out into the wind. In these incantatory pieces, everything is present at once. The landscape, teetering on apocalypse, is characterised by collision and disintegration. Among fragments of memory and history are meticulously journaled observations of the natural world: the moorhen who 'with exaggerated