Love Leans over the TablePassionate and affirming, the poems in this collection have at their heart an intense hunger for life, not only this side of death but after. Celebrating both human and divine love, they trace a path from personal loss to spiritual struggle and eventual epiphany, finding echoes in the vividly imagined experience of various mystics, including Rabia of Basra, John Donne and Simone Weil.

the unheard and the undead

and a hunted look

poets who stand on top of tower blocks and girls who find wings and fly across a landscape of abandoned council estates

Country Music is a debut of immense power from one of British poetry’s most accomplished new voices

masterfully translated by Misha Hoekstra

Alice Johnson – Literary Salons and Book Clubs

or as a dark and ironic account of one man’s belief that his personality and his actions are two different things

in full view of the neighbourhood

he’ll be meat

Peter Sansom

Their caffeine-fuelled discussions morphed into the intriguing concept behind this book: a cross-disciplinary creative dialogue in which the poet lets her imagination loose on philosophical texts and the authors of the papers respond

Dr Ullendorf