Small Pointed Things by Erica McAlpine Robert Frost the language of crisis gapes

the language of crisis gapes and sings

and wired birds parrot recordings of their extinct ancestors

Local Interest questions boundaries and belonging

to the separate stages in which they were written

part of the Paul Hamlyn Foundation-funded West End Writes project aimed at co-creating cultural activity in the West End of Newcastle

Small Pointed Things by Erica McAlpine Robert Frost the language of crisis gapesPublished 24th April 2025. Punctuated by rhyme and shaped by traditional poetic forms, the poems in Small Pointed Things take up the themes of marriage, motherhood, and family life, distilling everyday occurrences into moments of self discovery. Poignant and funny in equal measure, many of these poems address human concerns comically reimagined through the analogous lives of plants and animalsfrom snowdrops to love lies bleeding, manatees to warthogs,