Anders Villani

‘For the curious,’ writes Andrew Sant in a 2015 essay, ‘curiosity about one thing leads to curiosity about another.’ This feels an apt maxim, not just for Natural Wonders, Sant’s sixteenth book of poetry, but also for Mike Ladd’s Now-Then, combining new work and poems from six previous collections. Natural Wonders catalogues things – sea urchins, umbrellas, human violence – and studies the relations between them. Yet the word ‘wonders’ suggests post-romantic awe.

‘For the curious,’ writes Andrew Sant in a 2015 essay, ‘curiosity about one thing leads to curiosity about another.’ This feels an apt maxim, not just for Natural Wonders, Sant’s sixteenth book of poetry, but also for Mike Ladd’s Now-Then, combining new work and poems from six previous collections. Natural Wonders catalogues things – sea urchins, umbrellas, human violence – and studies the relations between them. Yet the word ‘wonders’ suggests post-romantic awe.

‘For the curious,’ writes Andrew Sant in a 2015 essay, ‘curiosity about one thing leads to curiosity about another.’ This feels an apt maxim, not just for Natural Wonders, Sant’s sixteenth book of poetry, but also for Mike Ladd’s Now-Then, combining new work and poems from six previous collections. Natural Wonders catalogues things – sea urchins, umbrellas, human violence – and studies the relations between them. Yet the word ‘wonders’ suggests post-romantic awe.