Geographer-poet Tim Cresswell writes with the forensic eye of a professional, bending the hard vocabulary of science into a jagged but compelling lyric that telescopes from the vast to the cellular in the space of a line.<\/p>\n
Plastiglomerate<\/em> completes a trilogy of poetry books that examines mankind\u2019s impact on the earth; its central poem recycles the British folk ballad \u2018The Twa Magicians\u2019 to make an ecological protest song fit for the Anthropocene age. But among powerful depictions of the natural world under threat \u2013 from beached whales to lost birds \u2013 it is the humanity of Cresswell\u2019s imagery that wins through: leaf-blowers in surgical masks, blue nail polish, the biro \u2018leaking in the heat of my pocket\u2019.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The plastiglomerate pictured on the cover was discovered by Julia Barton<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n