Kit Ingram's X Coranto is a layered, formally inventive work that reanimates the history of a single South London street through fractured reportage, fictional memoir, and archival collage. Spanning centuries, it stitches together newspaper clippings, personal fragments, and imagined monologues to expose the recurring violences-domestic, institutional, economic-that shape a place and its people. Ingram balances satire and sorrow with unsettling fluency, excavating both the spectacle and the banality of lived experience. The result is a portrait of urban life as palimpsest: ghosted, unstable, and persistently unresolved. PRAISE for X Coranto: A bloody and dizzying tapestry of lives that echo eerily through the centuries. Gothic, Sublime and utterly enchanting. This is a master at work. - Karina Lickorish Quinn A compelling mediation between past and present... poetry aglow with the strangeness of living. - Andre Bagoo Thick with collapsed ceilings, antique porn and historical injustice... haunted by the unsayable, lit by compassion for the missing and the silenced. - John McCullough Cohesive and constantly dismantling... Ingram reminds us that we are far from alone. - Troy Cabida Impish meditations on a London simmering with sex crime and social disaster... a broadsheet collage of urban historicity, tuned to the scale of a razor. - Kirsten Norrie
