you fell asleep with an ember in your mouth
dreamt you were playing a stone trumpet
a strange lament to accompany a cold ritual
smashed souls with bullet holes threaded
          with wire
strung up between this day and the next

From the compact energies of minimalism through to dramatic larger sequences, Apples with Human Skin re-imagines the possibilities of poetry. This new work by award-winning poet Nathan Shepherdson travels through visionary histories and wildly original spaces of philosophical enchantment and emotional resonance. Engaging with other artists from Austrian poet Georg Trakl to visual artists Lawrie Daws and Lucas Cranach the Elder, there is a vital sense of poetry in dialogue with the world.

'A poet who has a powerful feel for the structure of a line and the way that a poem can be shaped ...'
NEWCASTLE POETRY PRIZE JUDGES' REPORT