Matt Simpson's poems have been praised for the vivid way they link up to tell an evolving story. His first two books gave us a brine-tangy and unsentimental record of a Bootle back-to-back upbringing in a family of seafarers, culminating in a witty portrait-of-the-artist as a working-class lad up at Cambridge. Catching up with History begins with poems showing Simpson still rooted in those formative experiences, but moving out from and beyond ...
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