Flood (poem)

FLOOD is a book-length poem by Paul Thomas Abbott, published by Clutag Press in February 2008. Advertised as "a timely and daring debut in the disaster genre", it was the last in the noted series of Clutag Poetry Leaflets. It was also the first of the Clutag Poetry Leaflets to feature a young or emerging writer.

FLOOD was illustrated by artist Gail McNeillie, with eight sketches of "black pencil crayon on paper". As Ben Wilkinson notes in his Poetry Matters review: "In first-person narrative it tells the story of a fictional disaster’s survivor – a streetwise, well-read, youngish male who talks of HEAT Magazine, D.J. Shadow and ketamine in the same breath as his hallucinatory encounters with the likes of William Blake and John Milton – awaking to find himself floating about a grim, nightmarishly flooded London, a place that is as surreal as it is entirely familiar."

External Links

• Flood illustrations by Gail McNeillie.
• Clutag Press website.