Luke Roberts: Bad Omens

Drawn from a decade’s worth of notebooks and journals, ‘Bad Omens’ is a lyrical narrative of art and grief in a time of crisis. From London’s pollen-covered streets to wildfires in Idaho, gravesides in Paris to the Blackpool seafront, we greet a landscape of lost causes, unreasonable demands, and utopian horizons. It is “the part of the century where we’re losing our grip,” and someone somewhere is owed an explanation. Luke Roberts, a poet based in London, addresses his wounds and ours with anger and grace, struggling towards a poetics of beauty and debris, where everything worth saving is sung through gritted teeth.