Devouring Saturn, the latest pamphlet by The Lifeboat, is a work of linguistic misdirection. Summoning from the cosmic to ground itself in damp fields and cattle sheds, Devouring Saturn searches for the heavenly within the body and the self, encountering all the grubby and sordid elements of physicality en route. Commencing with an endless night spent hunting for meaning in a Green Toyota Corolla and ending with a loss so profound it consumes everything in its wake, Devouring Saturn meets emotional intensity with maximalist image-making. Simon Costello’s poems allow no reprieve as they submerge you in their opulent, visceral, wry and hedonistic perception of things, not quite willing to confront the truth of things head on, nor capable of looking away completely. This is a work of destruction and pleasure, intimacy and pain.