Absence by Ali Lewis Yousif M. Qasmiyeh The 'Office Hours' suite

The 'Office Hours' suite

Janet Lees

poems of praise in which the spiritual and the tangible are not remote but intimate

Cath Nichols

Parallel Movement of the Hands collects five long

Absence by Ali Lewis Yousif M. Qasmiyeh The 'Office Hours' suiteAbsence, the third title in CHEERIO's acclaimed poetry series, is a book about nothing. Or nothings: losses, vacua, gaps. From the desolation at the heat death of the universe to the impassable distance between two people talking, and from the trust exercise of walking in darkness to experiments on the vacuum, Absence searches for what's missing and what we never had. Starting with the problem of how to represent that that isn't there, and ending with