The Long Beds by Kate Miller
PBS Autumn Recommendation 2020 Mark Pajak on the one hand

on the one hand

I loved Emily Berry's Dear Boy (Faber)

hope and fierce tenderness will find their way under your skin and lodge themselves inside your heart

magic and migration

I had always thought the critical essay and the poem were closely related forms

The Long Beds by Kate Miller <br><b>PBS Autumn Recommendation 2020</b> Mark Pajak on the one handThe Long Beds explores the cell like containment of the small hours when the body has no estate but its bed, while waking or dreaming the mind sets out on its travels, often in the realms of an old life, cherished items or relinquished connections. Central to the poems' imagery is the presence of a bedstead that has survived a bombing raid, protecting only what was bundled underneath it. In painterly language Kate Miller also trains her eye and ear