Incidents of Travel by Jeremy Clarke “It's not fashionable to talk about 'taste' or 'decorum' in art any more, but, in the handling of this enormously personal subject matter, the poet definitely seems to be exercising fine taste. Both the work and the emotional self-mastery this suggests is admirable; certainly in contrast to the more openly 'confessional' art of our age. The force of ‘Train’ is particularly striking, the decision to centre the lines of only this poem works to unnerve the reader. It confirms what the bullet imagery says: something is wrong here, literally out of kilter. And so, as with the initial meeting and the subsequent consummation, we are allowed but a glimpse of a narrative milepost, via oblique expression. The use throughout the sequence of shadows and odd angles, as it were, is powerful; in filmic terms, almost Hitchcockian (and, like him, dark).” ~ Tom Adair, UK 'These are beautiful pages; treasures.' ~ Emily Young, UK