A new long poem for half a voice on the subject of despised knowledge
and political invisibility, published alongside a selection of shorter
poems and essays dealing variously with the merging and commingling of
smartphones and human bodies, the role of elegy in the mid-2000s, the
social basis of fascism in the 2010s, social class, and the symbolic
dysmorphia of the British high street. All of the work collected here
circles around two central relationships: between politics and
knowledge, and between poetic language and speech.