Touched by Alan Buckley Russell Jones ‘The radioactive spider that bit

‘The radioactive spider that bit Chen Chen (isn’t that how first books get made

But the genius of her poetry is to take the literal beyond itself into memorable and surreal flights of metaphor

 The Sun of Hereafter (2000) and Ebb of the Senses (2004)

First poet of the world for some things

      Atlantic – now churning up an army of wild horses

Touched by Alan Buckley Russell Jones ‘The radioactive spider that bitSome kinds of human damage are invisible and Not suffering in silence goes against the grain, as Alan Buckley says in Script. But the poems in Touched, his first full collection, do speak out. With delicacy and precision, they explore how it is to live with the psychological impact of trauma. In this landscape of risk, where the prospect of healing means everything, trust is perilous. As for lovewell, love is no less than terrifying. But not