Ill Nature by John McKeown Jonathan Edwards sweeping across centuries and continents

sweeping across centuries and continents

‘A Psalm for the Scaffolders’ is a hymn for her father’s profession

Against this

Chloe Murphy

Ill Nature by John McKeown Jonathan Edwards sweeping across centuries and continentsThe title of John McKeowns new collection of poems involves a punning conflation of sardonic ill humour and our environmentally ill planet. The spare elegance of his previous work is very much in evidence here, with a grimmer, bracingly bleaker note, in work which strips away the poetically comforting in favour of starker, purer vignettes of the urbanized nature around us and the inescapable allure of the opposite sex. Theres quiet passion here, naked