Talk a Blue Streak by Lila Matsumoto Alan Buckley James Kearns’ debut is a

James Kearns’ debut is a Chekhovian metanarrative: phenomenological

poems that send daylight into the dark that threatens to overwhelm us – and could not be more necessary to the times in which we live

The strength of these poems is their clarity and surety while addressing complex issues and the often painful nature of current life

' New Statesman 'Among Armitage's talents has always been his ability to set up easy-going conversational rhythms

She finds a peace in the natural world and rejoices in those moments of ecstatic recklessness that remind us to be present

Talk a Blue Streak by Lila Matsumoto Alan Buckley James Kearns’ debut is aPublished 21st May 2026 Talk a Blue Streak, Lila Matsumoto's third collection, is an innovative experiment in poetic memoir and story telling. With a rigorous commitment to artifice, the interlinked sequences trace the formative impressions of a childhood and teenage years spent in America encountering its language and customs: on road trips, in student dorms, with alternative music and junk food. Hugely pleasurable and often very funny, Talk a Blue