Grenade Genie

"Thomas McColl writes about a wasteland more frightening than Eliot's, but one where you still have to laugh at the craziness. A world of Instagram, security passes and decaying nuclear bunkers, where millions are spewed in and out of the Underground while being bombarded by invitations to go shopping. Where it isn't even safe to cross the road, and what happened to the trees? This is very definitely a book of poems for our times." - Merryn Williams, Bloodaxe Poet and Critic ""Grenade Genie" is a collection that is well needed in these uncertain times, where political and social issues fill our pages, this is a must read where political poetry should be read and heard. I do highly recommend this book to anyone interested in the current contemporary poetry scene, the book comes as twenty- five brief studies of the cursed, coerced, combative, and corrupted, the urgency in these pages needs to be heard today."- Matt Duggan: Poet