Please Don't Bomb the Ghost of My Brother by Julian Stannard Knives Forks and Spoons ’ It is a poem

’ It is a poem that seems to stand as a sort of manifesto for the whole book

Joyce and Gertrude Stein

refraining from easy equivalences

World Poetry Books

social workers

Please Don't Bomb the Ghost of My Brother by Julian Stannard Knives Forks and Spoons ’ It is a poemJulian Stannard has been described as the poet of cabaret. His poems sing and weep in equal measure; a poetry of wretchedness and hilarity, of discombobulation and the bizarre. In his new collection a dead brother returns on a white horse, a musical stag slips off to New York, the Kray Twins reappear, a summer pudding is carried across a heath, a pair of buttocks escapes their owner, a couple makes love on a rain soaked stoop, the Mongols catapult