Chopped Liver

James Roderick Burns’ fourth poetry collection fries up an assortment of short forms – haiku, tanka, sedoka – alongside slabs of prose poetry in a true ‘Dog’s Breakfast’: grumpy, disgruntled, even despondent, but always looking for the unbroken yolk in whatever is thrown into the pan.

Chopped Liver ranges through the competitive-eating contest, slug pilgrimages and the lonely charm of the roadside diner to grub up delight from the guts of life. A collection to be savoured.