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Adam O'Riordan, In the Flesh

This year looks like it’s shaping up to be an interesting one for new British poetry. There are several exciting debuts that have recently been released or are shortly forthcoming, not least Sam Willetts ’s New Light for the Old Dark , which I mentioned here a couple of months back, Miriam Gamble ’s The Squirrels are Dead , a first book of rhythmically taut poems that, if the stuff of hers I’ve spotted in magazines and elsewhere is anything to go by, will include lyrics and narratives from animal and curiously alien perspectives, and, of course, Dan Wyke ’s long awaited debut with Waterloo , whose subtly suggestive poems address the domestic, familial and everyday with knowing insight. One book I’m particularly looking forward to, though, is the first full collection from Adam O’Riordan . Titled In the Flesh and due to appear from Chatto & Windus this July, it follows on from a pamphlet, Queen of the Cotton Cities , published by tall-lighthouse in 2007 as one of the first in its