Words from the Wall by Adam Thorpe Christine Marendon and who intervenes in the

and who intervenes in the poet’s attempts to come to grips with ideas of colonization and identity)

from his debut to the latest

Ireland and Scotland

the problem of poverty and the problem of war

Words from the Wall by Adam Thorpe Christine Marendon and who intervenes in theThese remarkable poems are despatches from the edges of experience: from the remote coast of northern Iceland where tree trunks and dead whales lie beached, to the furthest outposts of the Roman empire in the title poem From the very limit of the world, Flavius sends you greetings, my lord. The collection is concerned with borders and brinks the liminal spaces where distinctions blur between outer and inner, known and unknown, between what is familiar