The Fetch"His poetry is uncanny in the true sense: a place of unnerving strangeness where you feel finally at home." Luke Kennard Gregory Leadbetters first full collection of poems, The Fetch, brings together poems that reach through language to the mystery of our being, giving voice to silence and darkness, illuminating the unseen. With their own rich alchemy, these poems combine the sensuous and the numinous, the lyric and the mythic. Ranging from invocation

the companion

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin

Soheir el-Masadfa

in perhaps the most frustrating (yet believable) depiction of the divine being in modern literature

Philosophical

The poems here examine the loyalties of family and friendship

a short story translated by Thomas Aplin

by some of the best-known names in contemporary Irish poetry (Eavan Boland

Writing it

there's a kindness there that comes through the study"

These are skilful and honest poems

Stephan Collishaw – author of Amber