My Reef My Manifest Array by John Wilkinson Julia Bird Spit and Hiss is the

Spit and Hiss is the fourth collection by Hull born poet Mike Watts

celebrated for deft lyrics

those by the two British poets are debut collections first published in full in this book

Simon Smith has found it so

Rafael Bordao

My Reef My Manifest Array by John Wilkinson Julia Bird Spit and Hiss is theIn 1487 Sir Henry Bodrugan, pursued for treason, leapt from a Cornish clifftop into a waiting boat and fled to France. Bodrugan's Leap, as the clifftop has come to be known, lies close to John Wilkinson's childhood home, and supplies the title for the central cycle of poems in My Reef My Manifest Array. That totemic image of exile feeds an interest in borders and partings that runs throughout the collection. The Cornish landscape of the poet's