Touched by Alan Buckley Michele Hutchison Where a pet tarantula or

Where a pet tarantula or mimic octopus might find itself beside glands and processed meats

and an impressive familiarity with chemistry and optics’ – Anne Stevenson

With her keen eye and a gift for vividly capturing the natural world

the selected results provide a basis for a found truth that is moving onwards and onwards

perfect red trainers - and the things that lurk in the library

Touched by Alan Buckley Michele Hutchison Where a pet tarantula orSome kinds of human damage are invisible and Not suffering in silence goes against the grain, as Alan Buckley says in Script. But the poems in Touched, his first full collection, do speak out. With delicacy and precision, they explore how it is to live with the psychological impact of trauma. In this landscape of risk, where the prospect of healing means everything, trust is perilous. As for lovewell, love is no less than terrifying. But not