Space Odes by Richard Parker March Francis Scarfe from early to

Francis Scarfe from early to mid-20th century

The poems of this dazzling second collection are of contradictory impulses: of abundance and famine

Keeping Time (Salt

The poems delight in the things of the earth

Space Odes by Richard Parker March Francis Scarfe from early toRTA Parkers Space Odes is an entertainingly bonkers romp of constellation and collage, writing and re writing its entertainingly allusive way through intertextual space lampooning, deriding, despairing at and celebrating robots, the universe, love and sport (cricket, mostly) in a wonky poetics of anxiety and joy at the world we are thoroughly and catastrophically screwing up. No Catharsis. No bust through into the empyrean. No illumination. It ends