Cargo

Delighted my new pamphlet Cargo is out now, published in September 2023 by Mariscat Press: ‘a many-layered collection of poems, full of grace, compassion and humour’.

To order a copy, visit Mariscat’s website.

Read our three-way Understory Conversation, between Sarah Barnsley, Kate Hendry and me, here.

Isabelle Thompson on The Friday Poem writes: ‘[…] it is, perhaps, the burden of one’s relationship with oneself which is most central to this pamphlet.’ And: ‘This cargo we bear, suggests Gann, is not all bad. Sometimes it is the price of love.’

And Jeremy Page in The Frogmore Papers: ‘Part of the pleasure of a visit to Gannland lies in never quite knowing what to expect, and this beautifully produced slim volume takes the reader to a succession of mysterious yet curiously recognisable places. This is a searingly brave and honest collection of poems which refuse to shy away from the dark corners of our lives of quiet desperation: She breathes quite slowly, and often sighs, / this person alone in her room (‘Still Life of Poet by and Orange’).’