Black Bullets in the Sweet Jar Char March AFTER SEX provides personal and

AFTER SEX provides personal and political perspectives from the mid-twentieth century to the present day

Children who like Dr Who will enjoy this story

Exploratory rather than didactic

Might they even be batting for the same team

Black Bullets in the Sweet Jar Char March AFTER SEX provides personal andDurham writer Alison Carr looks back to the childhood she lost when she was knocked down by a hit and run driver when she was eight years old. Written with a beautiful melancholy, the poems are constructed around iterative images of lost childhood pleasures, of falling apples and seasonal change, connecting personal feelings of loss with larger narratives of the Fall mythical, anthropological and economic.