Poems of the Decade: An Anthology of the Forward Books of Poetry

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nicky melville shows us the way forward. This much-anticipated ‘new and selected’ is top tier snack box stuff for surviving a Decade of Cu ts. Through erasure, collage and prickly lyric, melville tracks the sinister language games, coincidences and contradictions within political, institutional and corporate discourse. Channelling the ambience of everyday life — from ABBA to ASDA — this book is a ‘BUG HUM’ of relentless attention, love poems and fail poems, precarity and community. With artworks that span over 7000 years, the event has an illustrious history, welcoming collectors and art loves alike for more than three decades. “Tom Raworth once wrote that ‘80 percent prefer chips to poetry’.