Kitchen Music by Lesley Harrison Jean Watkins unravelling the banal frustrations of

unravelling the banal frustrations of online outrage and ageing friends

'[He] has made himself into a kind of unofficial poet laureate

a kaleidoscope of shifting perspectives presenting the character Agatha

hopelessly compromised

laments an unused dildo

Kitchen Music by Lesley Harrison Jean Watkins unravelling the banal frustrations ofIn her first Carcanet collection, Lesley Harrison looks North to the sea, with the heat of the land at her back. In her striking inventive arrangements of sound and page, Harrison bring us meditations on whale hunts and lost children, on cities seen and remembered, and the sound of the gamelan in the Gulf of Bothnia. A poetry which negotiates, line by line and page by page, with white space and silence, Kitchen Music plunges deep through the strata of