Last night via Zoom I attended the triple launch of books by Tom Sastry, James McDermott and Laurie Bolger. I've already read the Sastry and McDermott books. I've not read Laurie Bolger's book yet. Sastry is deadpan/gloomy and Bolger's anything but. I liked some of hers the most, so I'm looking forward to reading her. McDermott (who writes for Eastenders and the stage!) read mostly about his father's death during covid.
The readers inserted little extra words here and there, and often didn't respect the inter-word spaces of the text. Sometimes in a line with spaces they paused where there wasn't a space. This all makes sense to me - some layout features are for the eye only, and I can understand why there might be "stage" versions of "page" poems.
My story collection "By All Means" (ISBN 978-0-9570984-9-7), published by Nine Arches Press, is on sale from 
My poetry pamphlet "Moving Parts" (ISBN 978-1-905939-59-6) is out now, on sale at the 
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