Please Don't Bomb the Ghost of My Brother by Julian Stannard Douglas Crase A poet of thresholds and

A poet of thresholds and crossings

a bomb goes off

2001: A Space Odyssey

on the turn of a phrase

Please Don't Bomb the Ghost of My Brother by Julian Stannard Douglas Crase A poet of thresholds andJulian Stannard has been described as the poet of cabaret. His poems sing and weep in equal measure; a poetry of wretchedness and hilarity, of discombobulation and the bizarre. In his new collection a dead brother returns on a white horse, a musical stag slips off to New York, the Kray Twins reappear, a summer pudding is carried across a heath, a pair of buttocks escapes their owner, a couple makes love on a rain soaked stoop, the Mongols catapult