Absence by Ali Lewis Yousif M. Qasmiyeh Cath Nichols

Cath Nichols

Janet Lees

two in English thanks to the brilliant poet-translator Forrest Gander

In 2015 she was highly commended in the Philip Larkin East Riding Poetry Competition

The 'Office Hours' suite

Absence by Ali Lewis Yousif M. Qasmiyeh Cath NicholsAbsence, the third title in CHEERIO's acclaimed poetry series, is a book about nothing. Or nothings: losses, vacua, gaps. From the desolation at the heat death of the universe to the impassable distance between two people talking, and from the trust exercise of walking in darkness to experiments on the vacuum, Absence searches for what's missing and what we never had. Starting with the problem of how to represent that that isn't there, and ending with