Even the Trees by Roshni Gallagher Stein Mehren sensual profusion

sensual profusion

In their explorations of motherhood

Hughes admits the limits of ‘what we could safely speak’ - yet affirms that even in a ‘burning city’ or ‘galactic cold’ you may ‘let only your heart decide’

this is a book about dunderheids and smackheads

and meaning

Even the Trees by Roshni Gallagher Stein Mehren sensual profusionWinner of the James Berry Poetry Prize 2024 Shortlisted for The Jerwood Prize for Best First Collection 2026 In her debut collection Roshni Gallagher asks what can be seen, named or remembered. From Scotland to Guyana, the poems explore the porous boundary between the past and the present, and how ecological landscapes and landscapes of the mind and body are permanently altered by migration and memory. The elegiac series of poems Kala Pani reflects on