A Straight Up Giant by Mark Waldron #nikitagill author of short stories

author of short stories

‘Bloodaxe has just announced the exciting second collection from Dr Claire Askew

000 years by exiles

For Artifice is as much riddle as revelation

and is unafraid to confront violence and cruelty

A Straight Up Giant by Mark Waldron #nikitagill author of short storiesSerious, 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