A Straight Up Giant by Mark Waldron #nikitagill 000 years by exiles

000 years by exiles

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A Straight Up Giant by Mark Waldron #nikitagill 000 years by exilesSerious, comic, brave, cowardly, engaged, disengaged, urgent, unurgent, chattering chiffchaff, talking horses, unpretentious, pretentious, all of God's creatures are here. There's also an almost but not quite dialogue between the poems and the laconic (and sometimes furious) musings of the passages which punctuate them. There are a series of fairytale poems, and others which give unfettered voice to Marcie, a character who has appeared in Mark