Earwig Country by Angela Topping Alex Stevens victims of crime and

victims of crime and

These poems made me laugh out loud

” The point is not the picture but the frame and its surround

His poems live and breathe in their natural habitat

Earwig Country by Angela Topping Alex Stevens victims of crime and"Beautiful things have inner horrors I learned to be wary of." This collection balances darkness with light: the beauty of the flower, the earwig within. Themes of mental health and memory are played out against the superstition that earwigs can burrow in through the ear and eat the brain. The German word ohrworm means earworm: something replaying in the mind. Another theme is the mortality of the human body. Nature struggles, yet its beauty still