Sidings by Richard Barrett
£5 (incp&p)

Richard Barrett's first full collection brings together disjunctive narratives of city life, the 'ambient chatter' of a Manchester street, a mix of elliptical musings and dead ends of dialogue. Pronouns disappear off the face of the page, sentences go for an early lunch. These 'strange subjects of fascination' have been dropped from the thirteenth floor of an estate tower block. The shards may or may not cohere again but the light still glitters off them, on the concrete, under the rain...

'He's working out what it is to live in the modern urban environment with its constantly shifting media saturation...'

'Be prepared for specific words, sentences, parts of poems to return at unexpected moments...'