WILDPLASSENdove Chris Kirubi's WILDPLASSEN is a finely wrought debut collection. The weather surrounds, as subjectivity is carefully interrogated through typographic gesture and image. Thinking with Sembne, Glissant, Nourbese Philip and others, we are ushered into a space of translation and study reflecting on dispossession, native informants and racial categorisation. "Wildplassen" is a legal term for public urination in which wildness is invoked as an

the escape her mother made from Auschwitz but didn't talk about

Mama Darlin' the village midwife and Mr Cumberbatch the Chief Mourner

Few are stranger or more truthful than Sampler

perfectly clear poems has it

Lori finds him dead

with chapters from Kitsch 2011

this wonderful work consists of two long poems only

countries and customs

guillotines and dictionaries

In this stark and startling little book

they came from every walk of life and in all shapes and sizes

He’s a part of the core writing team of EastEnders and has written more than 200 episodes of the programme and is now the longest-serving writer on the soap