Spit and Hiss by Mike Watts Em Strang ear and imagination

ear and imagination

Sarajevo’s ‘neatened muddle of terracotta and concrete’ is twinned with the ‘church spires and rain-bright roofs’ of the poet’s former hometown

a bar where a merchant mariner has a story he must tell

'Without doubt the most arresting and original new young poet - on page and in performance - to arrive

Spit and Hiss by Mike Watts Em Strang ear and imaginationFrom corrupt local councillors and lost weekend lovers to memories of youthful exuberance and present tense mid life panic, all life is here, in all it s marvellous bare arsed glory. Spit and Hiss is the fourth collection by Hull born poet Mike Watts. As well as carrying Mike s trademark brutal honesty and hardboiled insight, these poems betray a deeper and more lyrical maturity to Mike s current way of looking at the world.