The Garland King Polly Clark learning to lean into the

learning to lean into the corners

and who has since slipped beneath the waves of fashion and time

about occupation

Anxious Corporals is a celebration of the lost world of the self-educating working-class

but they bring to it a joy in creation

The Garland King Polly Clark learning to lean into theMatthew Hedley Stoppards second collection attempts to create an uncanny space where traditional customs and modern anxieties mix. Here, we find the Garland King cannot shake the inherent sexism of our society; a mummer mismanages his depression after his child is diagnosed with cancer; and Morris Dancers melt in the midst of a climate emergency. The poems celebrate the rituals of the working and labouring classes, who have had their culture eclipsed