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Amali Rodrigo

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As we fall down the rabbit hole we practice funerals

Penny Newell

Bycatch by Caroline Smith Nick Laird the engagingly erotic lives ofShortlisted for The Forward Prize for Best Collection 2026 A deep sea trawler, dementia destroys all life in its path: friendships, the symbiosis of family and ultimately the self. In Bycatch, a new collection by the Ted Hughes Prize shortlisted poet Caroline Smith, these poems ask where personhood is when memory and language are gone. They chart the faltering years of a life gradually scraped bare by dementia yet find amongst the isolation and