ARGONAUT BOOKS

Hilarious, moving, accessible; the poems in this extraordinary debut interrogates patriotism in a flawed country. Reviews 'Sexy and exciting, they read like riffs and mug like rants: but, as this brainy poet grapples middle-class mores to the ground, they can also be extremely funny.' - Fiona Sampson, Guardian'Joy Is My Middle Name begins with a "Cento for the Night I Tried Stand-Up," a versified collage of lines by several dozen comedians. The poem's funny, several times over - thanks to the lines themselves and the full routines they recall, to the chains of non sequit...Read More