The Vulture by Gerard Woodward Jorie Graham and Swinburne himself ‘the libidinous

and Swinburne himself ‘the libidinous laureate of a pack of satyrs’

Gorgeously illustrated throughout by Nikita herself and featuring seasonal astrological poetry

the poet’s much anticipated second collection

economic – engenders its own nervy music

The Vulture by Gerard Woodward Jorie Graham and Swinburne himself ‘the libidinousThe vulture, the presiding genius of Gerard Woodwards collection, is at once sympathetic and awful, intimate and other. Woodward naturally positions himself at uncomfortable borders and thresholds, and in doing so alerts us to the flimsiness of the conceits of home, of family and human culture. Many poets have challenged our lazy habit of addressing nature though the pathetic fallacy; few have had the nerve to consciously embrace it as a subversive