Christopher Routledge is a freelance writer, editor and lecturer who lives in Lancashire, England. His most recent book is a history of the Robert Cain brewery in Liverpool entitled Cains: The Story of Liverpool in a Pint. He is currently co-editing two books about crime and detective fiction and waiting for his pet chickens to lay some eggs.
“One can no more locate the unconscious impulse to a poem among the synapses of the brain,” Devin Johnston writes in the preface to Precipitations, his study of the relationship…