Released May 31st, 2025 // 46 pages // 978-1-917617-08-6 // RRP: £9.99
 
Giles L. Turnbull’s Plastic Life is a tightly woven narrative-in-verse that examines disposability in all its forms—of relationships, rituals, memory, and meaning. Structured as a quiet unraveling, the sequence follows an unnamed protagonist through the fallout of a failed marriage, shadowed by modern life's throwaway culture and his own faltering attempts at connection. In spare, clear-eyed poems that drift from commuter trains to grief-soaked recollections, Turnbull sketches a world of plastic cutlery, takeout coffee, and unspoken regrets. The result is an elegy for the irretrievable, rendered in fragments both tender and unsparing.
 
ABOUT Giles L. Turnbull:
Giles L. Turnbull is a blind poet living in south Wales. His poems and articles have appeared in Algebra of Owls, Poetry Wales, and Acumen, amongst others, and in anthologies by Disability Arts Cymru, Three Drops from a Cauldron, and Nine Arches Press. He was shortlisted in the Live Canon International Poetry Competition in 2016 and the Bridport Prize in 2017. His debut pamphlet, Dressing Up, is published by Cinnamon Press.