States of Happiness by Suzanne Batty John Burnside There is a fierce intelligence

There is a fierce intelligence at play here

transformative poetry which makes the miraculous seem familiar and the domestic other-worldly

he was surprised to discover that he had created a poetry of sly political allusion

grounded in compassion’

Collected Poems reflects Berger’s longstanding concerns with art and politics

States of Happiness by Suzanne Batty John Burnside There is a fierce intelligenceStates of Happiness, Suzanne Battys second full length collection, begins with an extended sequence written in memory of her twin sister. This explores their relationship from shared birth to her twins early death from Friedreichs ataxia, a rare degenerative disease. Suzanne Battys gifts of empathy and imagination combine to produce a profoundly moving elegy telling the hidden story of growing up as the well twin and exploring the meaning of illness