Wing by Matthew Francis Holland Park Press in which violent acts against

in which violent acts against women continue to be perpetrated on a daily – hourly – basis

even theoretical

lonely people waiting for imaginary lovers

connection

the poet pays homage to Spanish mystics

Wing by Matthew Francis Holland Park Press in which violent acts againstMatthew Franciss latest collection celebrates the richness of nature and of our responses to it. The pleasures of summer are emblazoned in the colourful wings and evocative names of butterflies, while a nocturnal encounter with an earwig becomes a joyous incantation to the witchy beetle, forkin robin of dialect. His love of history, embodied in his acclaimed Mandeville and The Mabinogi, gives rise to a sequence based on Robert Hookes microscopic