An Arbitrary Light Bulb by Ian Duhig
Poetry Book Society Winter 2024 Choice
Stephen Sexton in The Bookseller (Autumn 2023

in The Bookseller (Autumn 2023 Highlights)

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There is beauty and grief and humour here

it forces us to consider what we leave behind in the everyday items we have amassed

deliberately finding itself at the interstices of composition and decomposition

An Arbitrary Light Bulb by Ian Duhig<br><b>Poetry Book Society Winter 2024 Choice</b><br> Stephen Sexton in The Bookseller (Autumn 2023An Arbitrary Light Bulb is Ian Duhigs most personal collection of poems to date. It takes its title from the most common type of household bulb yet one whose name is virtually unknown, like many people these poems celebrate. Duhig finds in the arbitrary an image for the randomness of inspiration and of life, haunted here by deaths of family and friends. He laments the lost but also responds to the glories of our existence, especially among the