Flung Clear: Poems in Six Books

First published in 1994, Flung Clear collects John Wilkinson's poems of the late 1980s and early 1990s, written in Birmingham and Cairo. Now recognised as a central English work of the period extending from the Miners' Strike to the first Gulf War, Flung Clear combines political urgency, self-invention and poetical scope. The collection includes the pamphlets Hid Lip, Bones of Contention, The Speaking Twins, Stages along the Lichway and The Nile.