Description
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.
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats 
The Lover's Pinch 
101 Poems About Childhood 
Pretend You Don't Know Me 
Somewhere Else Entirely 
Milk and Honey 
Isn't Forever 
Rabbit's Nap 
Then Come Back 
My First Mr. Men Nursery Rhymes 
Words the Turtle Taught Me 
Gold from the Stone 
Being Human 
Steep Tea 
Selected Poetry 
Dog Poems 
Bedouin Of The London Evening: Collected Poems