"Flowers of Sulphur" by Mario Petrucci (Enitharmon, 2007)

Poems from Acumen, Ambit, Orbis, Stand, The Spectator, etc. "Negatives" won the Bridport in 1999.

"Amaretti" mentions "Toadstool tops" and setting wrappers alight - allusions familiar to me, but more baffling to others. Fortunately there are YouTube videos about "setting fire to amaretti wrappers". "Orders of magnitude", "Request" and "Airfix" is a little sequence that would puzzle no one, but soon after that there's "footage" which is way beyond me.

Here's some imagery that caught my eye -

• he simply walked quarter speed behind a nebulous hearse of thought (p.28)
• our classroom became a space lightened as if by a wind-felled tree (p.28)
• one by one, those twinned red eyes of braking blinked shut (p.71)