At first sight, the cover of Peter Sansom’s sixth collection, Be Careful What You Wish For, and the poem to which it refers, ‘Lava Lamp’ – a concrete poem simulating, as the poet puts it, the ‘soun dl ess gloo b le/ and gl oop’ of the lamps’ shape-shifting contents –  are experimentally atypical of … Continue reading Peter Sansom, Careful What You Wish For (Carcanet, £9.95), reviewed by Ken Evans