Walls to Kick and Hills to Sing From A Comedy with Interruptions is a new poetry collection from Murray Edmond Arranged in six acts Exposition Complication Revelation Peripety Catastrophe and Denouement it merrily experiments with voice and performance including in various forms monologues dialogues choruses songs scene sets and storyboards Edmond writes that there isnt a poem which couldnt have been otherwise than it is and in his poems form is aptly married to content Language plays a starring role lobal glooming mobile grooming focal warping glottal warbling runs a poem on global warming A consummate director he arranges his dramatic and mock dramatic pieces with swagger and panache but never without a glint of selfirony The collections surprises and surreal moments a seal reciting R A K Mason a goat tied to the theatre door are balanced with more serious lyric poems of which the final section and superb postcardlike Narrow Roads to the East sequence are highlights This diverse miscellany which nevertheless has the coherence of a wellstructured variety show is a fine book challenging alerting playful profound These poems take readers into complex sites where language and experience meet

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