Bomb Damage Maps - Rupert M Loydell

Bomb Damage Maps ~ Rupert Loydell Rupert Loydell’s Bomb Damage Maps, explores West London’s elevated A40(M) Westway through a mixture of future history, psychogeography and elegy. Making use of graffiti, imaginary archaeology, reports about the Grenfell Tower fire, adolescent memories and middle-aged nostalgia, Loydell offers readers an urban post-mortem for the 21st Century. ‘At times hard-hitting, at times biting, Loydell’s poems pull beauty from the broken contexts of a rudderless society. It is poetry of rebellion and of urgency that underscores the need for poetry, art, conversation, and friendship in what is rapidly becoming an alienating, contextless world.’

Andrea Moorhead