Small Scale Observations by James Sutherland-Smith Matthew Dickman Like comets

Like comets

the jackets

hopelessness too

As James Byrne writes in his introduction: "Goya's Los Caprichos are a series of real-life nightmares that haunt the twenty-first century

Small Scale Observations by James Sutherland-Smith Matthew Dickman Like cometsThe poems in James Sutherland Smiths eighth collection move from the garden into the neighbourhood of a down at heel Hapsburg town and then range into the nearby forest, the personal and the past. Borders are crossed and seemingly insignificant creatures suddenly gain visionary dimensions. The title poem recalls a poet whose attention to the small scale made his work seem minor, yet as Hardy wrote he noticed such things, a heedfulness absent in a