Scarecrows - Jon Stone

Nothing about Scarecrows is predictable. Shadows look across the page and encroach from the margins. After each poem you look over your shoulder - just in case. But this is a poet who knows precisely what he's doing, even when half-intoxicated by language and allusions: Doctor Who meets Jenny Greenteeth; Perkin Warbeck visits the same pub as Nick Drake. Prophecies, spells and lies begin to take on the nature of truth, as the Scarecrow looks up and walks ...

Jon Stone was born in Derby; he now lives in Whitechapel. He is co-creator (with Kirsten Irving) of hand-built pocket literary journal Fuselit and co-founder or Sidekick Books, which publishes collaborative poetry collections. He maintains the websit ewww.drfulminare.com.