If the starting point for a number of poems in Ian Duhig's richly varied new collection is Sterne'sTristram Shandy, its presiding genius is the great 18th-century civil engineer, fiddler and polymath
Speed of Dark is structured around his astonishing reworking of the text of Le Roman de Fauvel, a medieval text that railed against the corruption of the 12th-century French court and church. In Ian D
