POSTCARDS TO MA
‘Postcards to Ma’ is a long poem of just over 400 lines. Rupert Loydell at International Times said it’s “a strange surreal annoying hilarious disturbing righteous tasteless ridiculous surprising, unexpected text. It comments on any and everything in the process of describing and participating in it. The narrator appears to not only be obsessive and irrational, but also perhaps hallucinating the whole thing; like Stannard as author, however, the writer of these strange reports and postcards is seemingly oblivious to how strange the strange world he lives in is, and simply responds to it, although ‘Sometimes I think I think / too much’.” I think he’s just about nailed it.
Published on January 1st, 2023 it’s available from Leafe Press here.