Drypoint by Jamie McKendrick Dani Spinosa his voice is an essential

his voice is an essential one: there is no other poet currently writing with O’Brien’s intellectual authority

" — Jonathan Mayhew

A rottenness at the heart of things

We see through the eyes of the poet

Drypoint by Jamie McKendrick Dani Spinosa his voice is an essentialJamie McKendrick's Drypoint depicts the turbulent present with incisive detail while often taking us back to an equally conflictual Biblical or classical world. Acute and stoical in tone, these poems transport us by bus or ferry or ghostly Rolls Royce to the cobbled streets of Ferrara, the once Greek port of Smyrna, the bombed acres of Liverpool and Mariupol, and to places not to be found on any map, places where 'North was south, being lost like