Two Twin Pipes Sprout Water brings together five discrete sequences of poems and poem- stories. Moving through different voices and times, landscapes and interiors, Lila Matsumoto’s new collection offers a sense of the world as an observed tableau, inviting the reader to participate in a creation of a strange yet familiar world full of ordinary-extraordinary moments.

Rooted in descriptions of objects and nature, these illustrative poems offer a sense of the world as an observed tableau, inviting the reader in as an involved and knowing participant in the creation of a strange yet familiar world.

Moving through different voices and times, landscapes and interiors, Matsumoto’s poetry is one of energetic precision, alert to the subtleties of rhythm and to the inherently visual nature of poetry, embracing the hybrid potential of the form.

‘A real quantum strangeness abounds in Lila Matsumoto’s poems – actual glimpses of life’s fast-running plurality, all the sprouting impressions and perspectives, in misleadingly tidy sentences that unfold like intricate inventions.’
– Sam Riviere

‘Visually masterful, painting images like an artist, and summoning scenes from nothing, so that we see them clearly in our own mind’s eye, Matsumoto also has a joyful, wayward sense of humour which made me snort-laugh here and there. If you like your poetry wildly inventive, then this is the book for you!’
– Mab Jones, Buzz Magazine

‘An experimental poet whose work is characterised by genuine humour and a simmering sense of the ominous, Matsumoto has a sharp eye for an image, and seems to write with a specificity that draws out the uncanny within the real . . .Two Twin Pipes Sprout Water showcases a poet whose formal experiments are varied, admirable and, taken in succession, full of the unexpected.’
– Seán Hewitt, The Irish Times