What to do when everything goes up in flames? Summon up A Man's House Catches Fire Tom Sastry's debut collection of poetry, with all its elegant, satirical and hurt-quenching power: here are nightmares and fairytales, museums full of regret, mis-enchantments and magic for dark times.
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[I was suddenly uncomfortably hot / but I have always had these surges, and at first / I thought the smell of smoke / was just me going off my head A MAN'S HOUSE CATCHES FIRE]***
(@NineArchesPress, 19 December 2019, e-book, 57 pages, borrowed from @natpoetrylib via @OverDriveLibs)
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So, I'd never heard of the poet before, shame on me. I wanted to read this because I loved the title and the cover. I was curious. I'm glad I read this because I have a poet to obsess over and cyber stalk (in a nice way). Every poem in this collection is fantastic. The poems are quite dark in tone and blend reality with aspects of myth and fantasy. The best poems are the title poem, Thirty-two lines on loss, A man learns to live with fire, Jeremy Paxman interviews the old woman who lives in the woods, Man and fire move house and I ran. I've not read anything quite like these before.
