Last Morning : Parlor Press : 9781643172828 : 1643172824 : 01 Jan 2022 : It's not only that Simon Smith captures like no one else the new rhythms of attention and distraction that have emerged over the last decade. In Last Morning he writes a poetry of pace that seems to walk down the page, often in little three-line clusters, creating meandering journeys that casually scramble the internal and external surfaces they negotiate. At once transcendental and grounded, these poems are intensely of their place and moment. Smith's audible dialogue with American poets like O'Hara, Spicer, and Peter Gizzi does nothing to stop him from being an ambassador of how Britain feels today to the hypothetical North American reader. These poems will walk with you. -Daniel Katz Reading Simon's Smith's nimble poems is not so different than riding a roller coaster built inside a pinball machine, where "space is a cube not a square." Everything you bump up against is real, as the poems pivot from one sig