Dark Pool: Poems 1994-2004 Greta Stoddart raised there at Alpha Cottage

raised there at Alpha Cottage School

‘Kalagora’ is a Hindi neologism meaning ‘black man / white man’

and joined the West India Regiment as a bandsman

this is a no-punch-unpulled diary of a young man who found himself at the UK core of a vital new music which rattled the mainstream and shook the floors of jazz clubs from New York to London in the fifties

Dark Pool: Poems 1994-2004 Greta Stoddart raised there at Alpha CottageTaking its title from the root meaning of Dublin, Ben Howard's fifth collection of poems probes the provenance of naming. Ranging in locale from eastern Iowa to County Clare, these poems endeavour to call the things of this world by their 'rightful names'. Whether the object of contemplation be a vanished Dublin bookshop, a bronze cast of Abraham Lincoln's hands, the month of February, or a son's twenty first birthday, Howard's poems seek wholeness