Partial Shade: Poems New and Selected by John Birtwhistle Danez Smith Swollening attempts to diagnose what

Swollening attempts to diagnose what has been undiagnosable

'Dean Rhetoric’s Cancer [+ Pop Punk] is a deeply poignant pamphlet exploring illness and the subsequent grief of losing a loved one

whose stuffed remains were displayed in European museums for nearly 170 years

remembering cubed beetroot

and it broadens her poetic range considerably

Partial Shade: Poems New and Selected by John Birtwhistle Danez Smith Swollening attempts to diagnose what'Partial Shade' is the common gardening term for plants that in fact need a measure of sunshine. In John Birtwhistle's poems, there is a continual play of light and shadow and even glimpses of 'full sun'. This selection from his own work does not follow chronology. It is an entirely fresh ordering, in which poems converse and argue with each other across the years. Lines about politics, parenting, mortality, art (and love, 'that bookish theme') are