Smokestack Lightning ed. By Andy Croft Wendy French the greedy eagle steals meat

the greedy eagle steals meat from a sacrificial altar only to have it burn down his nest and cause its young to fall out into the jaws of its vulpine rival

he catches us off-guard: a ‘whiplash’ effect where poems shift from laughter to slaughter in a moment

suggested in ‘The Creations of Sound’

Translated and introduced by Ian Crockatt with a Preface by Professor Roberta Frank

Smokestack Lightning ed. By Andy Croft Wendy French the greedy eagle steals meatSmokestack Lightning is the 200th book from independent radical poetry publisher Smokestack Books, containing one poem from every title published by Smokestack since 2004. Includes poems by John Berger, Linda France, Michael Rosen, Kate Fox, Alexandr Tvardovsky, Ian McMillan, Martin Rowson, Judith Kazantzis, Nikola Vaptsarov, Gerda Stevenson, Rocco Scotellaro, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Wintt de Rokha, Steve Ely, Gustavo Pereira, Kristina Dimitrova, Louis