Forward poetry critical snippets

Eat me

‘Straddling the literary divide between high brow and low brow’

‘Sublimely lyrical and spiked with gleeful humour’

**‘Create a tension between their urgent contemporary concerns and ‘dangerous’ subject matter’**

Chainsaw vs the pampas grass

**‘What we do without thinking about’**

‘Of course, this is not a prosaic experience for him’

‘Cliche and zippy vernacular’

From the journal of a disappointed man

**‘Incompletion haunts the collection’**

‘The collection marks his recovery of ‘negative capability’’.

‘Some engaged intimately with other lives, blending a poet’s imagination with a biographer’s tact’

Look we have coming to Dover!

‘At heart, this collection is an exploration of an identity crisis’

‘The nations unite uneasily but vibrantly under the umbrella of Nagra’s ‘Punglish’

**‘Transforming language from the barrier it was for his parent’s generation into a conduit, a space in which the duality of the immigrant’s experience can reside’**

Ode on a Grayson Perry Urn

‘Turnbull, meanwhile, ends by imagining his own future observes of Perry’s vase, ‘millennia hence’, who muse of his ‘louts’.

‘Showcases the formal brilliance and humour of a poet who has done **more than many to make a mockery of the page/stage divide, while still keeping an eye on the ever-present class divide’**

An Easy Passage

‘It is elegiac and bouyant’

**‘There is no self indulgence and no sense, for the reader, of being an intruder’.**

‘A masterclass in narrative poetry’.