A Straight Up Giant by Mark Waldron #nikitagill Lauder has a keen ear

Lauder has a keen ear for the musical and metrical possibilities of the well-wrought line which well serves his deftly rendered lyric style

author of short stories

skirmishes and the sidelong glance characterise Claudine Toutoungi's Two Tongues

000 years by exiles

For Artifice is as much riddle as revelation

A Straight Up Giant by Mark Waldron #nikitagill Lauder has a keen earSerious, comic, brave, cowardly, engaged, disengaged, urgent, unurgent, chattering chiffchaff, talking horses, unpretentious, pretentious, all of God's creatures are here. There's also an almost but not quite dialogue between the poems and the laconic (and sometimes furious) musings of the passages which punctuate them. There are a series of fairytale poems, and others which give unfettered voice to Marcie, a character who has appeared in Mark