Arthropod by Lydia Unsworth Irene Koronas Adcock's poetic dialogues expand the

Adcock's poetic dialogues expand the terms of lyric address to interrogate language itself

Yet there’s a generosity and a lightness to Milbank’s verse: a concinnity both with

it refuses to mark one consciousness neatly off from another

Pretend You Don’t Know Me contains her iconic poem ‘To the doctor who treated the raped baby and who felt such despair’ as well as Dowling’s tragi-comic cycle of poems on the theme of her mother’s dementia

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Arthropod by Lydia Unsworth Irene Koronas Adcock's poetic dialogues expand theLydia Unsworth's Arthropod bursts open with 'Starlight Express', a long prose poem about protection and harm, containing cannibal flowers, lecherous men, and family dynamics as constellatory and atomised as the poem. Like Selima Hill, Will Harris and Caroline Bird, Unsworth's images and associations are seductive with crystallised mystery 'Knowing is holding a field in your palm'. At its dense core, the collection orbits a divorce and single