Please Do Not Touch by Casey Bailey Vaughan Pilikian or one that has introduced

or one that has introduced me to so many vivid and memorable poems’ – Philip Pullman

in a language and style of verse that were emphatically modern

in the musical Italian vocabulary dotted throughout these poems

discuss and learn

Matthew Sweeney wrote this set of 50 prose poems in response to Baudelaire's posthumously published collection of prose poems (or petits poèmes en prose

Please Do Not Touch by Casey Bailey Vaughan Pilikian or one that has introducedThis is a beautifully shattering collection. How delicately it unstitches small and personal disasters on the page. How Casey flattens Birmingham and soaks our hands into its soil so we too feel its warmth, its grit, the seeds that may still germinate one day. Wow. Caleb Femi Walk around any stately home, museum or National Trust property and you are likely to see the words please do not touch more than a few times. The irony is in most cases the sign