Birds With A Broken Wing

Adam Thorpe''s fifth collection finds purpose in the discarded, the secretive, the failed. Juxtaposing creation and destruction, hope and grief - a small boy deep down a lead mine; an unlit, nocturnal path set against the ''insomniac'' motorway; industrialised apples against wrinkled windfalls - his poems argue for bewilderment and ''the slight bruise of doubt''.

Whether walking an abandoned road ...