Midamble is a walking book, not a book of guided walks, and not a book that discusses techniques or training for walking, but a walking book nonetheless.
After Billy Mills’ review (see below) another thorough review, with many more angles covered.
Read more here – http://stridemagazine.blogspot.com/2019/02/a-walking-book.html
Here’s an indication that the avant-garde, for want of a more reliable term, can have a sense of humour as well as being exploratory and innovative. Nathan Walker’s new book is a splendid tome, 600 poems, a poem per page, each centred in upper case type.
You can read more HERE
And in case you haven’t purchased, do so HERE
This is poetry which is both ‘serious’ and ‘funny’ and Jenks is even more aware than I am of the possibilities which can emerge from the ‘careful’ use of quotation marks – [213] ‘it is hard to ‘argue’ that ‘this’ is ‘poetry” . Jenks is a cracking writer and great fun as well.
