Description
Taking inspiration from sources including historical and medical texts, curator’s notes and the Complete Kama Sutra, Shazea Quraishi’s poems explore love and loss through a range of voices: an Iraqi mother holds her fragile son; under the guise of ardour, a courtesan searches a client for signs of the woman she loves; a wife is unsettled by her husband’s new family – The Art of Scratching is her first book-length collection, and includes The Courtesans Reply, a sequence written in response to the Caturbhani, four plays written around 300 BC on the life of courtesans in India.
Dog Poems 
The storm whale 
Macavity 
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats 
The Barbarians' Return 
Oi Get Stuck In! Sticker Activity Book (Oi Frog and Friends) 
Milk and Honey 
The Moon Before Morning 
Being Alive 
Signs Like This 
Greetings from Grandpa