Space Odes by Richard Parker March reminding us of what we

reminding us of what we lose by ceding ground to the officially sanctioned narrative

intimate narratives cling to the future through memory

then they are also testators to the craft of seeing: eye-proofs of an epiphenomenal world

The poems delight in the things of the earth

The poems of this dazzling second collection are of contradictory impulses: of abundance and famine

Space Odes by Richard Parker March reminding us of what weRTA Parkers Space Odes is an entertainingly bonkers romp of constellation and collage, writing and re writing its entertainingly allusive way through intertextual space lampooning, deriding, despairing at and celebrating robots, the universe, love and sport (cricket, mostly) in a wonky poetics of anxiety and joy at the world we are thoroughly and catastrophically screwing up. No Catharsis. No bust through into the empyrean. No illumination. It ends