Outlandish by Jo Clement David Harsent ‘This is carefully accurate poetry

‘This is carefully accurate poetry

His work should really come with some kind of health warning

The Ministry of Flowers is in many ways a book for our times

earth and air

which – together with the translations by poet Lesley Saunders – enables an English readership to acquire a sense of the formal

Outlandish by Jo Clement David Harsent ‘This is carefully accurate poetryJo Clement's first collection confronts Romantic impressions of British Gypsy ethnicity and lyrically lays them to rest. From Wordsworth to Top Gear, her poems invite us to consider notions of otherness, trespass and craft. She steps between ancient stopping places and mardy council estates to trill elegiac Romanes, English, and birdsong about witches, wild camping and Silver Cross prams. Compelled by a brutal Gypsy, Roma and Traveller diasporic