
C K WETTON
Charlotte Wetton is based in West Yorkshire. Her first pamphlet, I Refuse to Turn into a Hat Stand, won the Michael Marks Awards 2017. She has been published in Poetry Wales, Staple, Stand and the Frogmore Papers and won a New Writing North award in 2019. She has performed at Aldburgh, Ledbury and the StAnza Slam and has a spoken word album, Body Politic.
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INTRODUCTION
The selection of poems here all use a particular sort of language to play – the language of Ordnance Survey maps, or management speak, or the common names of insects. I want the reader to enjoy the inherent rhythms and rhymes of these (almost) found languages. My ideal is that the reader would feel linguistically recharged by these poems and want to savour language, even in everyday life.


COLLECTION OF POEMS
Song of the bug
Segmented tankman
with glass-noodle legs,
we never stop questioning
O monk's louse, monkey-peas
peasie-bug, doodlebug
medieval perambulator
buffed to a dull sheen
both horse and knight
O butchy boy, boat-builder
monk's louse, monkey-peas
tiny-footed scuttle
to the dark mulch
underbelly of anything
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