Dirt Rich by Graeme Richardson Rishi Dastidar ” — Christian Bök

” — Christian Bök

 The Herald (Scotland)

she brings to both inner and outer quandaries an abiding compass: the choice to embrace what is

and abrupt tonal pivots that echo the dislocation of memory and the loops of online life

Dirt Rich by Graeme Richardson Rishi Dastidar ” — Christian BökIn Dirt Rich, Graeme Richardson digs deep into his past, from a childhood in the Nottinghamshire coalfield, to the hatch match dispatch duties of a Church of England priest, to work in an Archaeology Department in Germany. These are grounded, earthy poems Born in a mess, we die in a mess and here is the dirt we dish, the mud we sling, the treasure we bury. Love and loss are treated with humour and startling frankness. Here are life's trade offs "do we