is said to have despaired of the world’s venality and corruption
Then he spent half a century trying to get up to speed with Proust's great novel in two different languages
beer and breakfast in Smithfield
winner of the 2016 Edwin Morgan Poetry Award
rooted in history that is at once ancient and contemporary
melt by Sarah Hymas Julia Bird is said to have despairedmelt, structurally influenced by the poets work as an artistbook maker, enfolds the intimacy of the known with what is unseen, and seemingly remote. Here, Hymas creates a poetic space of ocean as an assemblage of animal, plant, plastic, mineral, technology, human and more, a book that reaches for an ecological mutuality, a reorientation of that which appears distant into a poetic proximity. And just as there is no one way to read the sea, there is no