First Nettles
First Nettles collects poems written between 2021 and 2024, from precarious off-key lyrics to sprawling elegies of damaged life. A book of flailing, desperate music, hurt and hopeful, held together by pins and gaffer tape, art and courage and comradeship. Includes the sequence “Seizures” (2022) – “perfect in its openness and lyrical disfigurement” (Danny Hayward).
“[An] exhilarating collection […]. The sequences here are ferociously and admirably radical, with some superb political satire and verve to the poems.” —Adam Piette, Blackbox Manifold, no. 34
Designed and typeset by Phil Baber; cover collage by Sam Keogh
Published in 2025 ┊ 144 pages ┊ Paperback ┊ Language: English
