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It’s a world of madness, but we have to keep going. We have to keep taking whatever this life throws at us, and somehow arrive at the end happily intact. Graham Fulton’s collection, using new poems, and poems selected from two previously published pamphlets, stumbles and careers through a geography of absurdity and tenderness, defeat and hope, obsession and paranoia. A real breathing world populated with drunks, Daleks and devil dogs; Proust-loving football supporters and road rage maniacs. A pre-apocalyptic wasteland of glittering fragments that come together to make completely no sense. All we can do is Continue.