Please Don't Bomb the Ghost of My Brother by Julian Stannard Douglas Crase Other poems illustrate his love

Other poems illustrate his love of wry or fond overhearings

Lucie Richter-Mahr

a bomb goes off

the slow ticking of grief

fear and fearlessness

Please Don't Bomb the Ghost of My Brother by Julian Stannard Douglas Crase Other poems illustrate his loveJulian Stannard has been described as the poet of cabaret. His poems sing and weep in equal measure; a poetry of wretchedness and hilarity, of discombobulation and the bizarre. In his new collection a dead brother returns on a white horse, a musical stag slips off to New York, the Kray Twins reappear, a summer pudding is carried across a heath, a pair of buttocks escapes their owner, a couple makes love on a rain soaked stoop, the Mongols catapult