Aqueous Red by Kit Ingram short form these poems take a historical

these poems take a historical perspective on the present day from the ground upwards – whether the geological strata that underpins a ‘dithering island’ or the ever-moving turf under a racehorses’ hooves

Casey’s poetry has featured in a number of anthologies and he was commissioned by the BBC to write ‘The Ballad of The Peaky Blinders’ in 2019

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'Every poem in this book is a marvel

Aqueous Red by Kit Ingram short form these poems take a historicalAqueous Red explores the deep shadows of love. In Kit Ingram's spellbinding poetic exorcism of violence, intimacy, and dreams, illicit liaisons surface in fragments of interconnected lives. A boy watches his father pour scalding water onto his brothers hands, and later rescues a doll, promising to protect it with a kiss. A priest blesses a prostitute with holy water while a son drowns in a painful memory. In the sequence Red, a married man falls in