Folkish Format:Paperback and the weird things parents

and the weird things parents do

the reader is taken to Dresden and Brixton

and joined the West India Regiment as a bandsman

But a man as possessive as Harry is not to be denied

Folkish Format:Paperback and the weird things parentsFolkish is a trickster figure masquerading as a poetry collection. Full of ghosts, worms, saints, and Northern English folklore, Kym Deyns debut is playful, spirited and absolutely furious moving between the alive, the legendary, and the haunted in endlessly inventive forms. Between deep time and mischief, Deyns poetry hungers and sharpens its spells casting curses on bad landlords, exhaustion and poverty. These poems know intimately the coexistence