]… it’s with delight that I have in my hands, Andy Jackson’s third published collection of poetry, The Saints Are Coming, his first with Blue Diode Press. This title treats readers to a shining hagiography of saints for this anthropocenic age who, with due diligence, watch over the livingness of poets, radiographers, lottery winners, thieves, radicals, embroiderers, haemorrhoid sufferers, gamblers et al.
Observe as prosecutors
rearrange denials into damnations,
transmute honesty into culpability(Û÷The Catechism of St. Catherine of Alexandria Patron saint of jurorsÛ÷)
These saintly characters cast in malleable forms, sometimes enacting the ludic virtue of a Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-in’watching as I die my thousand/deaths, still clinging to my shtick’ (Û÷The Martyrdom of St Lawrence Patron saint of comediansÛ÷) while at other times the gravitas of a rebel drama, are resolute in their capture of the tones and cadences of their patronage….
This is an excerpt of a review on the DURA website by William Hume of Andy Jackson’s The Saints Are Coming. For more information on Jackson at StAnza21, please click HERE. To read the whole review, go to the DURA webpage.
