Reaper in a Headlock by Simon Alderwick
Broken Sleep Books
Reaper in a Headlock by Simon Alderwick is a wild, tender, and tonally agile collection that traverses grief, fatherhood, absurdity and cultural exhaustion with restless invention. Framed by elegy and shaped by wit, the poems move between lyrical observation and comedic deflation, evoking the solemn and the ridiculous in equal measure. Alderwick's voice is deeply human"”unafraid to mourn, laugh, lash out, or play"”and his formal range includes anecdote, parable, list, sermon, and beat-style monologue. Underneath the humour and self-interrogation lies a sustained reckoning with belief, mortality and how to stay present in a collapsing world. A luminous, grieving, riotous text.
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