The Resurrectionists by John Challis MacGillivray precise quality of their lyricism’

precise quality of their lyricism’ (Sasha Dugdale)

of mental fracturing and its corollary: the exuberant performance of the self

Wenlock Poetry Festival and the Poetry Cafe

although you never know

Mattar’s poetry is eloquent

The Resurrectionists by John Challis MacGillivray precise quality of their lyricism’The living and the dead are working side by side in John Challiss dramatic debut collection, The Resurrectionists. Whether in Londons veg and meat markets, far below the Dartford Crossing, or on the edge of the Western world, these poems journey into a buried and sometimes violent landscape to locate the traces of ourselves that remain. Amidst the political disquiet rising from the groundwater, or the unearthing of the class divide at the gravesides