I am delighted to announce the publication of BOMB DAMAGE MAPS by Red Celings Press,
with stunning cover art by Oliver Bevan.
You can buy from: http://www.theredceilingspress.co.uk/
Rupert Loydell’s Bomb Damage Maps, explores West London’s elevated A40(M) Westway through a mixture of future history, psychogeography and elegy. Making use of graffiti, imaginary archaeology, reports about the Grenfell Tower fire, adolescent memories and middle-aged nostalgia, Loydell offers readers an urban post-mortem for the 21st Century.
‘At times hard-hitting, at times biting, Loydell’s poems pull beauty from the broken contexts of a rudderless society. It is poetry of rebellion and of urgency that underscores the need for poetry, art, conversation, and friendship in what is rapidly becoming an alienating, contextless world.’
– Andrea Moorhead
‘There is a craft and style to Loydell’s work which appeals to the orderly side of my brain. I like the way his mind plays with words and images… Again and again he uses the unexpected to illumine and define. What Loydell has produced is a balanced and beautifully stylistic display of great talent.’
– Black Mountain Review