Human condition

Even as a marriage begins in 'The Honeymoon Snaps', the title poem of John Foulcher's most recent collection, darkness is not far away. Foulcher shows us a newly-wed wife snapping photographs on a beach, but frowning as she senses 'a…

Suburbia, whatever else it may be, is also a euphemism for normality. As such it has become central to representations of transgression, deviance or perversion that are either implicitly or explicitly anti-suburban in their refusal of a life-style that is…