Outlandish by Jo Clement Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal ' – Sean O’Brien

' – Sean O’Brien

sensical and non-sensical meditation on Mary’s demise: ‘Once

Many poems display a compassionate concern with the suffering of Guyana’s poor

like a person who cannot sleep and stares and stares all night at a blank wall

Outlandish by Jo Clement Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal ' – Sean O’BrienJo Clement's first collection confronts Romantic impressions of British Gypsy ethnicity and lyrically lays them to rest. From Wordsworth to Top Gear, her poems invite us to consider notions of otherness, trespass and craft. She steps between ancient stopping places and mardy council estates to trill elegiac Romanes, English, and birdsong about witches, wild camping and Silver Cross prams. Compelled by a brutal Gypsy, Roma and Traveller diasporic