These Yellow Days Jun LiuKitty Hawkins first collection These Yellow Days is haunted by the birth and death of an idealised adulthood. Its extinction, in the form of a dead woman, haunts the poems, observing erosion, dunescapes, femininity, rebirth. Set largely in the blustery yet desolate expanses of a coastal landscape,These Yellow Days uses speculative and imaginative juxtapositions as a means of rewriting memories, particularly interactions with those the poet holds most
as Pamela Taylor reveals the secrets of trees through her exquisitely detailed and accurately observed pen-and-ink drawings
She is a sure-footed guide through the extraordinary life they were called to lead
John Hodgson was born in England and studied English at Cambridge and Newcastle
I feel its hand upon my shoulder
and Beth Hickling-Moore’s translation of Carla Nyman’s radically physical poetry of the body
She knows the language of faith – frangipani for full moon days
Guardian journalist and novelist
dramatic and hard-hitting
" Hera Lindsay Bird
spider named Gladys (who may or may not be her deceased grandmother)
Eamonn Wall probes and meditates on the histories
The story reflects how our modern world is shaped but above all it is about its people
