Stop Sharpening Your Knives introduces a unique anthology bringing together “a remarkable gathering of emerging poets” with three original artists.
Whether exploring imagined worlds or dissecting the details of our own, these poems provide the ideal subject matter for fantastical and inventive illustrations, while demonstrating a serious engagement with language and its place in the contemporary world: “relative, virtual and multiple, rapidly shifting, and endlessly interpreted and contextualised.”
S.S.Y.K.(2) is a stronger, fitter, faster, bolder and sleeker production, containing over 80 pages of poems, a foreword by Lavinia Greenlaw and specially commissioned illustrations from three up and coming young artists known for their comic and surreal styles.
S.S.Y.K.(2) is OUT NOW! You can mail order it here for £5 (incl. p&p) or pick it up at one of the events over the coming weeks.
[Poems] Margot Douaihy/Jack Underwood /Robert Herbert/Hayley Buckland/Tim Cockburn/Matthew Gregory/Agnes Lehoczky/ Sam Riviere/Nathan Hamilton
"I wish I'd written some of these myself"
Hugo Williams
"Energy, maturity and sharpness"
George Szirtes
