Spurious Language by James Appleby
A spurious language exists in books but not outside them. A man at a funeral with ash in his mouth. A rat, a whale off an industrial coast. The recriminations of a body discovered in the street. Appleby's debut pamphlet of poems follows the translations, between languages and experience, that define our interaction with the world. Restless and shifting in form, serious about humour, never shrinking from difficult subject or technique, it was highly commended in The International Book & Pamphlet Competition, "the most prestigious competition of its kind… launching the careers of many well-established poets†(The Poetry Business).
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