Impastoral Men's Health & Social Care Parents and educators send kids

Parents and educators send kids to the dictionary or a thesaurus when they want to learn a new word

Val McDermid

It is a story of courage and survival against apparently overwhelming odds

O’Connell

documenting his hair-raising experiences with Charger Charley

Impastoral Men's Health & Social Care Parents and educators send kidsPoems that blur the boundaries of language and species, inviting us to imagine a new world. The expansive reworking of language in Impastoral flies through the possible voices of outsides and insidesslug, probe, horse carriage, sewer, potted plant, lab rat, vampire, bot fly, giant cow. Language, in Brandan Griffins poetry, is neither human nor nonhuman, and it undoes that very idea of these distinctions, so beingsslugprobe, pottedhorsesewer,