The Resurrectionists by John Challis Laurel2022 'The poetry of Will Burns

'The poetry of Will Burns is made of smoke and mystery

Through translation he reached a poetic language of his own

Combining a beautifully performed naivety with a profound intellect

its individual parts creating a field of tension

The Resurrectionists by John Challis Laurel2022 'The poetry of Will BurnsThe living and the dead are working side by side in John Challiss dramatic debut collection, The Resurrectionists. Whether in Londons veg and meat markets, far below the Dartford Crossing, or on the edge of the Western world, these poems journey into a buried and sometimes violent landscape to locate the traces of ourselves that remain. Amidst the political disquiet rising from the groundwater, or the unearthing of the class divide at the gravesides