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." |
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... 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." |
