Wordplanting Ken Worpole Owen Gallagher’s third collection of

Owen Gallagher’s third collection of poems is a book about the warring tribes to which we all belong

Like many translations

In the midst of war

born and raised in London

sometimes they stand side-by-side

Wordplanting Ken Worpole Owen Gallagher’s third collection ofKendel Hippolytes poetry moves easily, boldly between the worlds of public engagement and the intimacies of domesticity. What unites this movement are the distinctive sounds and rhythms of his voice, and whilst some poems have a named recipient, and some are addressed to himself, all engage the reader in an implicit dialogue. His is an art of sound, of the rhythms of the long, supple line, of form that sometimes disguises itself as no form, of the