In The Event by John Birtwhistle Zohar Atkins while relatively few

while relatively few

Bantam crosses borders

the highpoint of his career (both published 1931)

won the 2012 Cinnamon Press Poetry Award

and full of wonder at the weirdness of the world

In The Event by John Birtwhistle Zohar Atkins while relatively fewJohn Birtwhistle has said that 'one writes each poem just to learn how to write it', and insists that he 'doesnt care a dried pea for Artistic Development or Finding One's Own Voice'. The result, of course, is that a strongly recognisable voice comes through. For all their variety of forms and ideas, his poems are consistent in their visual precision, their scrupulous phrasing and their formal clarity. These qualities are brought to everything he