In Mr. Sapiens, Jesse Patrick Ferguson's third collection of poems, the composer of Harmonics and the architect of Dirty Semiotics now wears the hats of raconteur, portrait artist, correspondent and naturalist. In this astonishing variety of voices, Ferguson tells us of fighter pilots made redundant by unmanned drones, the secrets hidden in great works of art, a local plague of garden slugs and the stability of the Earth's core. Mr. Sapiens is a chameleon, a master of disguise, the consummate Everyman. Ferguson's subtle poems catch us with our guard down and change the world before our eyes.
