New York Hotel by Ian Seed Elizabeth-Jane Burnett Anecdotal Evidence demonstrates the formal

Anecdotal Evidence demonstrates the formal brilliance and empathetic insight which have delighted readers for years

tone and form it ranges widely

gender and identity

The War of the Orchards (1971)

leading with the poet’s only weapon

New York Hotel by Ian Seed Elizabeth-Jane Burnett Anecdotal Evidence demonstrates the formalThe delight of Ian Seeds brilliantly droll poems is that they are not entirely droll. They look and sound normal, like brief prose anecdotes told in a bar but the apparent normality is edged with disorientation, menace and anxiety. We slip over the edge in an instant and look to recover our balance but cant quite. The world has gone, leaving behind a comical void. And that, we understand, is the nature of the world. The voice is controlled, in fact