Ned Denny's Unearthly Toys are treacherous playthings, as rigorously structured as they are thematically unsettling, a `rhapsody of rags gathered from several dung-hills, excrements of authors, toys and fopperies confusedly tumbled about' (as Robert Burton dubbed his Anatomy of Melancholy). The collection opens on a twilit, numinous world of exotic drugs, subterranean drums and visionary apprehension in which - to quote Twin Peaks, a recurrent leitmotif - `the woods are wondrous ... but strange'. Interspersed with original poems in a variety of complex forms is a series of illuminated and...
Ned Denny's Unearthly Toys are treacherous playthings, as rigorously structured as they are thematically unsettling, a `rhapsody of rags gathered from...
After seven centuries, the Divine Comedy reborn... In the follow-up to his 2019 Seamus Heaney Prize-winning debut Unearthly Toys, Ned Denny takes a unique, startling approach to the medieval, quintessential spiritual epic.
After seven centuries, the Divine Comedy reborn... In the follow-up to his 2019 Seamus Heaney Prize-winning debut Unearthly Toys, Ned Denny takes a un...