Rain Rider

David Briggs was born in 1972, and grew up in the New Forest. He received an Eric Gregory Award in 2002, and his first collection, The Method Men (Salt, 2010) was shortlisted for the London Festival Poetry Prize. Rain Rider is his second collection. He lives, teaches and writes in Bristol.

• Rain RiderForecastLa PerochonniéreThe Enigma of the FoolAnd a StarThe DevilFollow MeThe HermitSignifier and SignifiedQuennetTest CardGreenThe FearFlorentineLocalsPenleeNo PrisonersGeographyThe Fool Subject to ExperimentsHieraticOThe Fool’s QuestAutobiographical DissonanceWhen Sam BeckettLiturgyThe MarinerThe Fool on OlympusThe WeddingMy RivalLast Letter to CalliopeThe BridgeThe DeveloperThe ThiefTemperanceResolutionThe EquationThe Fool’s Wake

What his new book shows is that his sense of poetic vocation has sharpened to a point at which a real kind of poetry makes its way through him, being shaped and shorn with enormous skill, but possessing its own life and duende.