Rock, Paper, Scissors by Richard Osmond George Herbert A collection of the absurd

A collection of the absurd

though fluid and ironised

the locus shifts farther out into mythic space with a parallel narrative from the Greek world that both mirrors and interweaves with the first half’s here-and-now

to the delights of life in London

His first collection

Rock, Paper, Scissors by Richard Osmond George Herbert A collection of the absurdRichard Osmond won the the Seamus Heaney Prize for his widely praised first collection, Useful Verses. His second, Rock Paper Scissors, presents an extraordinary, collaged response to the poets direct experience of the terrorist attack in London on June 3rd, 2017. Osmond has written a powerful and challenging collection of original poems representing the complex, fragmentary nature of traumatic experience. Interleaved with these are translated