Gold Light Shining by Bebe Ashley  Mark Eisner Kirsten Irving

Kirsten Irving

as if to emphasise her poems' gentle refusal of existing phrases

but a million times funnier” (Dave Lee

‘Thom Gunn smuggled the lyric tradition out of post-war Britain

joyful poems pay homage to those who took the first steps – minority writers

Gold Light Shining by Bebe Ashley  Mark Eisner Kirsten IrvingWithin five minutes, I knew I loved the stranger in my head. In her debut collection of poetry, Bebe Ashley spins gold from the detritus of the internet. A landscape often depicted as a wasteland is illuminated in poems that explore celebrity, obsession, sexuality, coming of age, and that charismatic enigma, Harry Styles. Inspired by sources as diverse as Styless track listings, Scandi webseries Skam, and One Direction newsletters, Ashley spins us