This captivating collection delves into the dark, moist, unexpected bag of human experience. Taking the themes of love, sex, and life's unpredictable mysteries and excitements, Neil Rollinson scrapes away at the veneer of normality to reveal a world that is instantly stranger and more compelling than before. He revisits the erotic with his usual wit and bravado in poems that are sometimes playful and sensitive, sometimes visceral and shocking. The works explore scientific subjects through bedroom eyes, introducing the idea of entropy to the lovers' lexicon, and they make sport a backdrop for...

Following the frank, subversive, and very funny poems in his first two books, these poems occupy a more rueful, reflective space, a darker place where disintegration and loss are the only certainties, and memory the only solid ground.