a woman diagnosed with ‘Housewife Psychosis’ recounts her dreams to Freud
backwards in time and into my present
He takes the art of noticing to a new level
Locales range from the poet’s native America
Cover artwork by Sanna Räsänen
Reaper in a Headlock by Simon Alderwick Deryn Rees-Jones  a woman diagnosed withReaper in a Headlock by Simon Alderwick is a wild, tender, and tonally agile collection that traverses grief, fatherhood, absurdity and cultural exhaustion with restless invention. Framed by elegy and shaped by wit, the poems move between lyrical observation and comedic deflation, evoking the solemn and the ridiculous in equal measure. Alderwick's voice is deeply human"unafraid to mourn, laugh, lash out, or play"and his formal range includes anecdote,