Wordplanting Maria Teresa Horta Investigating Mr Wakefield explores the

Investigating Mr Wakefield explores the dangers waiting to ensnare those who try to find out

finely observed moments

Finch is a well known performance poet and his poems have the immediacy and the dramatic impact of pieces conceived for the stage

a bracing and energising quality that continues through his latest work

Margaret Atwood

Wordplanting Maria Teresa Horta Investigating Mr Wakefield explores theKendel 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