Shia LaBeouf

'Sharp, bleakly funny, mordant and tender poetry from one of British poetry's most original talents. 'Shia LaBeouf' turns the volume up on the pains and pleasures of living in a body in this crumbly, sinful, pretty world.'--Rebecca Tamas; 'I think in some moods one of the only poets around now worth reading, that is, who hasn't forgotten about pleasure. Or as if imagism happened again, only this time you could think in it.'--Sam Riviere; 'We all know A. K. Blakemore is a bolt of lightning. And in this stinging new work, she's weirder, wilder, even more fun. There's a way she pins a whole emotional landscape with one line, a phrase, an insouciant sweep of the hand. Her shifts into and out of a poem are truly hers, and brilliant, her vocabulary and syntax, all her. What's exciting is that they're becoming her even more so, here. I can't wait for everyone to read this book and see what I mean.'--Wayne Holloway-Smith; 'some poetry just slips into the accidental realm of the iconic, where language refracts and dazzles'--Maria Sledmere, SPAM; 'While the Beat Gen Men said what they wanted to say about society and masculinity in thousands upon thousands of words, AK Blakemore expresses 21st century alienation, for women, in just a few well-chosen ones.'--woodbepoet.com; 'Blakemore excels at sudden and drastic changes of tone and imagery that marry the beautiful to the painful. Evocative and unsettling, it also boasts a wry humour.'--The Indie Insider