Nick Makoha - Kingdom of Gravity Forward Shortlist Enitharmon Press ‘Inching towards the status of

‘Inching towards the status of a National Treasure

and Songs My Country Taught Me

of the cacophony of living

Anaxagorou offers the reader an insight into his poetry career with work spanning from 2009 to 2016

Nick Makoha - Kingdom of Gravity <b>Forward Shortlist</b> Enitharmon Press ‘Inching towards the status ofShortlisted for the Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection Nick Makoha's poems animate in the space between story and song. His sentences unwind full of axe heads, shanks, short rope, blades, some poison and all its animal understanding. His imagery and insights are strung along an electrified syntax. He writes, You will try to make sense of the terrain, its limits on reality, its secondary sounds the crickets speaking pure rhetoric. I find the