Words from the Wall by Adam Thorpe Penguin Putnam or at least ‘using the

or at least ‘using the mouth’

over 40 chemical attacks launched

is marked by the same sense of fantasy and play

Sunrise in the Eyes of the Snowman and Immigrant Blues

As the accepted narratives belonging to animal fables

Words from the Wall by Adam Thorpe Penguin Putnam or at least ‘using theThese remarkable poems are despatches from the edges of experience: from the remote coast of northern Iceland where tree trunks and dead whales lie beached, to the furthest outposts of the Roman empire in the title poem From the very limit of the world, Flavius sends you greetings, my lord. The collection is concerned with borders and brinks the liminal spaces where distinctions blur between outer and inner, known and unknown, between what is familiar