The Late Guest

In this playful and deft collection, pickpockets, psychoanalysts, professors and philosophers run amok. There are exuberant dolphins, aggressive whales and unsolvable arguments. Boys mime causes of death at the swimming pool and a geyser erupts sporadically but a trip to the Repair Café should see you right. Future wives and other interesting encounters may be found in the kitchen of a party, if only you could arrive on time. Deftly teetering from small occasion to whimsical association, with a glance at some lightly-worn knowledge, some close-to-the-bone apprehension, on the way, the apparently casual voice of these prose poems knows exactly what it’s doing. Think of the skill of the tightrope-walker, always almost falling in a way that makes us smile… and gasp now and then. Yes, like that.’ – Philip Gross -- Publisher: Parthian Books