Bath of Herbs by Emily Zobel Marshall Alan Buckley This new collection of expert

This new collection of expert lyric poems movingly animates the characters of his childhood in County Cork

Powerful themes emerge

yet ambitiously experimental among the forms she uses

The Poet Laureate Has Gone to His Shed

conveyed with a formal virtuosity and a real sense of the seduction of the imagination that is truly captivating

Bath of Herbs by Emily Zobel Marshall Alan Buckley This new collection of expertBath of Herbs is Emily Zobel Marshall's beautifully crafted, honest and thoughtful first collection which explores the complexity of mixed race, hybrid identities and relationships to the English and Welsh mountains, fells, rivers and shorelines from an 'othered', unmappable, positionality. It honours the lives of Black and Brown women and asks how they can reclaim space, both practically and conceptually. It celebrates and mourns the unspoken pain