Description
According to the seventeenth-century herbarium The Garden of Eden, a ‘missel-child’ is a mysterious being found beneath a mistletoe-covered tree – a changeling, perhaps, ‘whereof many strange things are conceived’. Helen Tookey’s first full collection of poems starts from the missel-child to explore archaeologies of identity, place and language. She is a formally inventive writer, using collage and syllabics, exploring elegy and myth. The poems in this book create a space in which language enables something to be said and also to be shown.
Poetry 
The Last Poems of Jules Laforgue 
You Can't Take an Elephant on the Bus 
Eros Proposes a Toast 
What Rhymes with Sneeze? 
Luck Is the Hook 
There Are Girls Like Lions 
I Speak For The Devil