Upper Volta Stein Mehren

Upper Volta Stein MehrenLike an anthropologist doing fieldwork, in Upper Volta Yanko Gonzlez collects language from street corners, grocery store aisles, cocktail hours, and historical sources, laying data bare with a poets meticulous hand. In his findings, Gonzlez gives voice to the voiceless, and exposes the underbelly of our own biasesthe ways in which they manifest in everyday language and collective consciousness. Originally published in Chile in 2007, Upper Volta

Dominic Turner

author of the classics Border Districts and Tamarisk Row

There’s his summons to the clearance of her ramshackle house

Yet this complicated man continued to feel alienated from literary London by his lowly background

Faustin Charles was born in Trinidad but has lived and published in London for most of his adult life

The title section of this four-part collection adopts the giant coast redwood trees in California as a particular talisman

Ian McMillan presents The Verb on BBC Radio 3 every Friday night

He is a cheerful grumbler always on the lookout for food and a quick kip

Philip Larkin

With an Afterword by Philip Casey

This Collected Poems

introduced by Saadi Simawe