Kedging: New Poems (Salt Modern Poets S)

Kedging is John Matthias's first book of poems since his long New Selected Poems of 2004. The volume is divided into five parts. Mark Scroggins in a review of New Selected Poems - that Matthias, working in the tradition of late modernism, but in middle-length poems that are not open-ended, has "written one Briggflatts after another." Robert Archambeau has said that Matthias writes "successfully in a wider range of styles than any other contemporary poet." John Kinsella has said simply that Matthias is "a great poet."