If the Mute Timer by Tom Docherty Ruby Robinson and has a vision as

and has a vision as rich and wide-ranging as its predecessor

‘Every so often

aims to make his poetry more widely available to an English-language readership while the introduction by two eminent scholars of Russian literature sets it in its wider context

ensuring the poems’ unflinching honesty

Along the way it takes in fossil-finders – like the pioneering Mary Anning – T-Rex’s gym routine

If the Mute Timer by Tom Docherty Ruby Robinson and has a vision asTom Dochertys first collection, If the Mute Timber, begins not with a book nor even an attentive ear, but with the elusive fragment of its title. The poems situate themselves in medias res: among birds or gravestones, between lines of prayer, in the flux of appearances. Places without words become focal points: the poems seek articulation in life before birth and after death; in animal and imagined lives; in works of music, painting, and architecture;