Crowd Voltage

John McCullough's Crowd Voltage addresses yearnings for community. It probes fragmentation within groups and individuals disturbances within the body of the crowd and the crowd of the body. Sky and sea dominate as the speakers search for oneness and completion, confronted by vast silences and the shadow of Brighton's collapsing West Pier.

John McCullough has published four previous collections; most recently, the Costa-shortlisted Reckless Paper Birds (2019), winner of the Hawthornden Prize, and Panic ResponseHis first collection of poemsThe Frost Fairs 2011) won the Polari First Book Prize.