Devil's Piece by Lynn Valentine Michael Murphy Memorial Prize 2017 ’ he called it in

’ he called it in his Art Poétique of 1922

a wedding was no place for reinvention: everything from the location to the outfits to the language of the ceremony was decided by our particular cultures

Joel Everett was born in 1999 in North Yorkshire

Having ditched a Philosophy Single Hons

Alice and Antius (Penrose Press

Devil's Piece by Lynn Valentine Michael Murphy Memorial Prize 2017 ’ he called it inIn Devils Piece loss, absence, mental illness and pain are examined with a lens so clear and lucid, the heart aches. Yet in that clarity, there is a savouring of the smallest things and a permeability to love and life that creates songs of what might have been dirges. There is no dressing up of reality, no pretence that everything is well, but in these fearless, precise poems there is transformation. An exquisite collection.