Empires of Clay by Becky Cherriman Incarnation These books have been enormously

These books have been enormously popular with readers

There are also poems about innocence and responsibility which ask what it means to bring new human beings into this world

gravity and light

But he does so with rhythmic subtlety and verbal craftsmanship

and one of them includes the best line ever written about this uneasy

Empires of Clay by Becky Cherriman Incarnation These books have been enormouslyConfident, deft and inventive, Empires of Clay is the first full length collection from performer, poet and community activist, Becky Cherriman. Taking us into a world that is at once anchored and real, yet never predictable or what it seems, these poems are alive with surprising moments. A doctor collects droplets from a couple making love in the shower 'for tinctures and ointments, cures for lonely hearts and hopelessness', whilst a mother and