Mollusc by Mark Totterdell Ariana Reines For more than forty years

For more than forty years Matthew Sweeney sought to capture

The Guardian described Terror

and so bring them home into the modern day and age

and the birds and insects and plants it hosts

or the spontaneous and cathartic practice of the writer’s ‘morning pages’ – until they reach the book’s arresting central sequence

Mollusc by Mark Totterdell Ariana Reines For more than forty yearsPoetry of this quality makes you wonder why Totterdell isnt better known within the mainstream of British poetry as Ive seen far lesser poems than this highly praised in the national press. His exploration of the relationship between people and his planets co inhabitants has something of the intellectual and emotional power to be found in Helen Macdonalds prize winning prose work, H is for HawkStimulating, erudite and unpretentious. Great stuff. Steve