Robert Walton

Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.

In this action-packed issue you'll meet: The hero Bogerd and his troupe of warriors as they climb the mountain known as the Ogre. The Mechanical Marauder who holds up stage-coaches when he could clearly do so much more. DeShawn and his son Keeden as they dodge and weave around giant robot protectors trying to keep them safe from enormous city-destroying kaiju. Garrol and Jim, grim outsiders in desolation, who are forced to make tough choices. The crew of the Dalton Delivery 5, hibernating royalty, gigantic tardigrades, and crustacean space people who remind the pilot of spiders. Yourself as a spy, but all is not as it seems. Sylas, a young man with the power to reweave memories and ease pain, who sells his abilities to the wrong customers. A desperate brother whose experience with an experimental pharmaceutical breaks his grip on what is real.

Not so much a discovery as a re-discovery, Robert Walton’s new book of poems, Sax Burglar Blues, is his first full collection since winning a Welsh Arts Council Prize in the 70s. After a working life as a teacher, Walton has resurrected his artistic gifts, and years of experience give his work both a spiky mien and an artful complexity. Packed with memory, incident, observation, opinion, humour, outrage and elegy, this collection benefits hugely from the author’s years of experience. Subjects include: woodlice, jazz, teachers, grandparents, a canary who runs for President, Sisley’s lovely painting of the Gower, the iconoclastic poet John Tripp, a night bus named after Dusty Springfield, the beauty of an Ash tree in spring, a Dad who loves Cardiff City, the austere beauty of a Bristol church, the annoying closure of bookshops and much more!