Dammtor

Dammtor is the old city gate and now the centre of ground transport for the great port of Hamburg. In James Sheard''s second collection it is a ''station for midnights, hitched up on stone legs, hollow with sunken light'' - a hub for the damaged and deracinated. These precise, wounded poems draw the reader through this desolate landscape - through sexual longing, sexual violence, bereavement and t...