Missing Parts continues Alan Loney’s normal practice of writing in sequences. “There are such things I suppose as ‘perfect individual poems’. Many people have written them and I enjoy and admire many of them. But I don’t want to write them, at least, not these days. If the poem’s an imperfect take on the world or even part of it, better to be crisp about it, and treat writing as unfinished and unfinishable buisness. So, adopt a framework, write for a while, then stop. It isn’t, of course, quite as simple as that...”