Improvised Explosive Device by Arji Manuelpillai
PBS Recommendation Winter 2022 Claire Crowther Some enquire into the natural

Some enquire into the natural world and our human place in it

’ Malika Booker

bullies who kick you under the table

When Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis was first published

these poems embrace the spiritual

Improvised Explosive Device by Arji Manuelpillai<br><b>PBS Recommendation Winter 2022</b> Claire Crowther Some enquire into the naturalImprovised Explosive Device is a startlingly innovative exploration of extremism, hate crime and violence by poet Arji Manuelpillai. In this powerful and unsettling first collection, Manuelpillai presents a vision of the contemporary haunted by Melvilles image of the whale the terror beneath the surface of the sea. His uncompromising focus on violence is laced with gallows humour and the surreal, framed against the mundane detritus of modern life: two