Useful Graham Fulton and children with bare feet

and children with bare feet

One stall had bursting figs

The cover artist is Mehdi Qotbi from Morocco

translated by Jonathan Dunne

INTERVIEW WITH A PUBLISHER

Useful Graham Fulton and children with bare feetPeter Finch's collection, Useful, is marked by all the restless energy, humour and angst that is so characteristic of this compulsively entertaining poet. Among the varied subjects to come under the poet's subversive scrutiny are Modern Art, the Blues, computers, automobiles, ex wives, recalcitrant children, aged parents, bleak Welsh landscapes, factory workers, writing classes, old shirts and beach stones. His continuing fascination with technique is