Tigress is wildly inventive
and described by John Kinsella as a ‘masterpiece’
conveyed with a formal virtuosity and a real sense of the seduction of the imagination that is truly captivating
through the dizzying landscapes of a country undergoing profound change
the saving grace of love in an otherwise bleak childhood is celebrated through spellbinding visions of nature
Feel Good Movie of the Year by Luke Wright Sean O'Brien Tigress is wildly inventive'My poor old heart, I've left its drawbridge down' Divorced, and perhaps a little bruised, Luke Wright journeys off the sunken roads of southern England and into himself, pursued by murderous swans, empty car seats, and his father's skeleton clocks. Both brazen and elegiac, these poems pull on the 'tidy hem' of responsible existence, unravelling the banal frustrations of online outrage and ageing friends, and grasping at something 'beyond our squeaky