Turn Up the Ocean by Tony Hoagland Graham Fulton But the poems go further

But the poems go further

'His work is as much influenced by literary antecedents like William Martin and Anne Stevenson as by more familiar presences like Bunting

Akbar responds with prayer as an act of devotion to dissonance - the infinite void of a loved one's absence

His first two collections were Poetry Book Society Recommendations: Thinking of Happiness

Turn Up the Ocean by Tony Hoagland Graham Fulton But the poems go furtherAmericas Tony Hoagland (1953 2018) was known for provocative poems which interrogate human nature and contemporary culture with an intimate and wild urgency, located somewhere between outrage, stand up comedy, and grief. The poems in his final collection Turn Up the Ocean examine with an unflinching eye and mordant humour the reality of living and dying in a time and culture that conspire to erase our inner lives. Hoaglands signature wit and