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SHORTLISTED FOR THE TS ELIOT PRIZE FOR POETRY 2020WINNER OF THE SCOTTISH BOOK AWARDS’ POETRY BOOK OF THE YEARA POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE JOHN POLLARD FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL POETRY PRIZE”Whip-smart, sonically gorgeous” – Rae Armantrout, author of the Pulitzer Prize winning VersedWhen Louis Pasteur observed the process of fermentation, he noted that, while most organisms perished from lack of oxygen, some were able to thrive as ‘life without air’. In this capricious, dreamlike collection, characters and scenes traverse states of airlessness, from suffocating relationships and institutions, to toxic environments and ecstatic asphyxiations. Both compassionate and ecologically nuanced, this innovative collection bridges poetry and prose to interrogate the conditions necessary for survival.







God Love Poetry, In-Prints You
The Lover's Pinch
Florilingua
Peace Poems and meditations on peace
The Moon Before Morning
Comic Poems
This Is Yarrow
Said And Done
Selected Poetry
Is This a Poem?: What makes a poem, and how YOU can write one
Six Vowels and Twenty Three Consonants: An Anthology of Persian Poetry from Ruda
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
Swansea Automatic
The Months
Floss