Mollusc by Mark Totterdell Ariana Reines fingers poised at the typewriter

fingers poised at the typewriter

The Guardian described Terror

or the spontaneous and cathartic practice of the writer’s ‘morning pages’ – until they reach the book’s arresting central sequence

In this polymorphous text pleasure and pain coexist

A prolific and successful poet

Mollusc by Mark Totterdell Ariana Reines fingers poised at the typewriterPoetry of this quality makes you wonder why Totterdell isnt better known within the mainstream of British poetry as Ive seen far lesser poems than this highly praised in the national press. His exploration of the relationship between people and his planets co inhabitants has something of the intellectual and emotional power to be found in Helen Macdonalds prize winning prose work, H is for HawkStimulating, erudite and unpretentious. Great stuff. Steve