Andrew Brooks

Life is complicated, comparisons are easy. We consume enormous quantities of information every day from sources that are reliable, and those less trustworthy, including journalists, politicians, friends and social media. One of the most common tools we use to communicate is comparison. Are we suffering a 'hurricane' of migrants? Do dogs look like their owners? Is Oxford better than Harvard?...

Andrew Brooks's Year of the Ox is a constellation of images that chart the movement of history, not with the logic of linear progress but the dialectic of historical materialism. The poem takes what has been and flashes it together with the now, with blackberries, garden spiders, broccoli pasta, and much else. Through this constellation, we see, in silhouette, the...

Life is complicated, comparisons are easy. We consume enormous quantities of information every day from sources that are reliable, and those less trustworthy, including journalists, politicians, friends and social media. One of the most common tools we use to communicate is comparison. Are we suffering a 'hurricane' of migrants? Do dogs look like their owners? Is Oxford better than Harvard?...