What [The Method Men] shows is that his sense of poetic vocation has sharpened to a point at which a real kind of poetry makes its way through him, being shaped and shorn with enormous skill, but possessing its own life and duende.” |
The elegance of the writing carries one safely over the horrors … and Rain Rider shows Briggs fearlessly using the full resources of language and cultural reference for serious pleasure.” |
Cracked Skull Cinema is replete with dynamic poetic forms and musicality ... [It] contains multitudes. Through the tesserae of social commentary, humorous quips, and artefacts of popular culture come moments of lucid beauty." |
The Odyssey Complex is a witty, sophisticated, playful, heartfelt pleasure, full of surprises and delights. These poems are formally accomplished, intellectually inventive, emotionally layered, and bursting with life. They make you want to hang out with the poet, playing whatever music springs to mind and talking till the wee hours. Just wonderful." |
... AND PAMPHLETS
Briggs presents potent and evocative ways in which the writer envisions the world and makes it known – in its literal or metaphoric moment .. [His] writing in [Vision Helmet] will encourage you to ‘risk the night’s small teeth at your throat’.” |
Habitat is a new pamphlet from award winning poet David Briggs which takes W.H. Auden's 'Thanksgiving for a Habitat' as its starting point." |
