Reaper in a Headlock by Simon Alderwick Gaia Holmes The changes that arose were

The changes that arose were masked for some time by the enormous power and shock of the conflict itself

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these carefully crafted lines leave the reader mulling over our interaction with – and overuse of – the natural world

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Reaper in a Headlock by Simon Alderwick Gaia Holmes The changes that arose wereReaper in a Headlock by Simon Alderwick is a wild, tender, and tonally agile collection that traverses grief, fatherhood, absurdity and cultural exhaustion with restless invention. Framed by elegy and shaped by wit, the poems move between lyrical observation and comedic deflation, evoking the solemn and the ridiculous in equal measure. Alderwick's voice is deeply human"unafraid to mourn, laugh, lash out, or play"and his formal range includes anecdote,