Clutter Jar by Christopher Horton award winning Sophie Herxheimer

Sophie Herxheimer

often creating an impression of barely contained chaos which is often neatly punctured by a wry insight about reality TV or group chats

Poems of blood and birdsong

Kate Potts' Whichever Music was a Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice in 2008 and shortlisted for a Michael Marks Award

Clutter Jar by Christopher Horton award winning Sophie HerxheimerChristopher Horton's Clutter Jar is a taut, emotionally charged pamphlet that explores masculinity, violence, memory, and technology with formal clarity and restrained lyricism. These poems move between fractured domestic interiors and shifting landscapes, often returning to fatherhood, the erosion of time, and upheaval with a searching, unresolved gaze. Horton's language is spare but deliberate, allowing quiet images to resonate with unease or