Slide by Mark Pajak
PBS Recommendation Autumn 2022 Eric Gregory Award into a spare bedroom edging

into a spare bedroom edging its occupant out

Across the ages

‘Beautifully crafted

For our Winter 2017 Bulletin

Slide by Mark Pajak<br> <b> PBS Recommendation Autumn 2022</b> Eric Gregory Award into a spare bedroom edging'Fresh, urgent, alive genius.' Patience Agbabi This assured and arresting first collection moves deftly and with purpose into private, hidden places a locked shed, the dark of a battery farm, a murky riverbed, a late night bar to show, unflinchingly and in cinematic detail, what we might otherwise choose not to see. Sight is both a gift and curse, of course: given or taken away in poems of windows and curtains, torches and blindfolds, and yet here