Foundry Songs by Dean Rhetoric Thomas A Clark Ender also designed the cover

Ender also designed the cover for Mandelstam's children's book

At the heart of the book is the ongoing pressure of code-switching - changing one's behaviour and language to suit radically different cultural contexts and environments

Many of these poems find themselves in the dark

the need to go beyond oneself

and what is revelatory

Foundry Songs by Dean Rhetoric Thomas A Clark Ender also designed the coverDean Rhetorics Foundry Songs examines shame, grief, lust and loss through the emotional upheaval of a troubled adolescence pitted against a post industrial backdrop. Both gritty and lyrical, Rhetoric combines cutting wit with poignant descriptions of trauma. The poems grapple with God and working class identity, envisioning a world where posh pelicans laugh at seagulls choking on chips, workers on strike protest Richard Curtis and tumours tumble out