O Postivie by Joe Dunthorne Sophie Collins dealing with a ten-hour train

dealing with a ten-hour train ride together

          there they sit like statues of sitting dogs

‘telling stories learning where the skin/is most in need of touch’

prose poems

Declan Ryan

O Postivie by Joe Dunthorne Sophie Collins dealing with a ten-hour trainO Positive is the long awaited debut collection of poetry from Joe Dunthorne, and it has all the appeal of his widely acclaimed fiction. Adopting a sunny, genial tone, Dunthorne lures the reader to darker places, exploring death and dread, failure and regret the lounge of our suffering. Often, he catches us off guard: a whiplash effect where poems shift from laughter to slaughter in a moment. Impertinent owls, an immersive theatre troupe, ancient men