Cracked Skull Cinema by Mr David Briggs
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Cracked Skull Cinema offers poems on culture and society, colonialism and its legacies, media and power. Set between these are homages and reflections on middle age, on life's loves and losses.
Being focussed and aware is not without pain, suffering and sacrifice for the narrator of these poems. The final poem 'Lullaby' concludes 'we understood the cost of what eluded us.' These poems are full of careful, taut observations and considerations, all within 'the eager crosshairs of truth's opportune rifle.' If at times I longed for some linguistic carnage to shake things up, this is nonetheless a sure-footed, agile and wise group of poems.
-- Rupert Loydell * Stride Magazine *