The Last Weather Observer by Matthew Rice John Fuller combining a troubadour’s musicality with

combining a troubadour’s musicality with full grasp of the moment

these charged and challenging poems never shy from confrontation

Sharon Olds

Robert Frost

thriving or long-since shut

The Last Weather Observer by Matthew Rice John Fuller combining a troubadour’s musicality withthis is gorgeous, subtle and heartfelt work. Matthew Rice can take a single memory, carve it out of the infinitely re configurable past, then light and shoot it so that it resembles heaven or hell. The pause at the red light, the school canteen, those we lose, those we keep, then lose; the connections which might arise from a song or a video game. Transporting stuff Luke Kennard These poems are attuned to threat, loss, disappointment, resolve. A tense