In this startling and energetic first collection, Ben Parker explores real and imagined territories and reports back in poems that are both darkly funny and vividly descriptive. Combing concision with a surreal lyricism, the worlds of The Amazing Lost Man are at once strange and familiar, while the central sequence of 'Insomnia Postcards' is a joyous clash of the quotidian and the bizarre. These poems have a subtle music, and a confident voice that draws the reader in.