The Melancholy of Anatomy by Martin Corless-Smith Simon Armitage riverbanks and docks

riverbanks and docks

bleak grey days are transformed into a world of glittering frost and snow-blanketed landscapes

Distant sounds too are heard from captivity in a sequence of poems about the last princess of Wales

to buildings both exotic and eccentric

a thigh's red-gold geometry

The Melancholy of Anatomy by Martin Corless-Smith Simon Armitage riverbanks and docksIn The Melancholy of Anatomy, his ninth collection of poetry, Martin Corless Smith turns his attention towards ageing and mortality, and in particular to the death of his father. Shifting between formal verse and prose, from the metaphysical to the whimsical, from surreal to anecdotal, the book moves between poetic articulations as a mind might through memories, sifting to find anything to hold on to as everything flows and falls away. At times