Press release for the new collection of poems by Mike Farren: Forcing Rhubarb in Bermuda? Lamentations for the West Riding (Carcanet Press, 2025).
The JugginsVerse studio is happy to promote the work of those whose artistic efforts, values and style chime with our own. Sometimes the little chaps need a little help with their stumbling efforts from the big boys! So, in that spirit, we are pleased to give a little extra publicity to the Carcanet Press’ press release for the new collection of poems by Mike Farren. Press release for the new collection of poems by Mike Farren: Forcing Rhubarb in Bermuda? Lamentations for the West Riding (Carcanet Press, 2025). (Embargo 01/09/2025, TLS excepted. Full press release 29/08/2025. Mike Farren bio https://www.mikefarren.co.uk John Fuller bio https://www.johnfuller-poet.com/biog.htm ) This new collection, from Shipley’s ‘King of Poetry’ Mike Farren, is very much a book of two halves. In the first, a familiar, characteristically oppressive, atmosphere of melancholy pervades what are quintessentially poems of observation. Farren, we infer, shuffles ceaselessly and apparently aim...
