Handling Merce Sarrias an expert on Rawlings and

an expert on Rawlings and the medical problems faced on the Burma Railway

Nick Mann frames adult hypocrisy for us all to see

resonant tone and artfully transposes his sun-drenched Tuscany to the cool

This is truly a view of the River Kwai experience for a 21st Century audience

Handling Merce Sarrias an expert on Rawlings andThe poems in Handling, Jack Thackers debut gathering, display an extraordinary gift for describing the sights and sounds of farming life through an exact and tactile evocation of daily work, implements and activities. Childhood memories and seasonal tasks, such as planting vegetables, shearing sheep, and ploughing fields, are handled in a language that is at once strange, familiar, and as rhythmically measured as it is inventive. The descriptive poems