David Briggs’ new collection offers a midlife counterpart to the Oedipus complex exploring themes of family ties, nostalgia and retreat, ageing and mortality, acts of memorial and the impulse towards hospitality.
David Briggs was born in 1972, and grew up in the New Forest. He received an Eric Gregory Award in 2002, and has published three previous collections of poetry – Rain Rider, The Method Men, and Cracked Skull Cinema. From 2019–2023, David was co-editor of the Bristol-based poetry journal Raceme.
