'These are poems not just of promise but achievement: they invite the reader’s attention, and having won it are slow to let it go.' (Preface)
Contents:
Lies and Lullabies; Anniversary; Homesickness – Fox; Eroica; Libra – Clock-Watching; This Is a Love Poem – Love Note in an Origami Swan; Girl Two Doors Over With The Yellow Coat; Having Never Laid in a Hammock; The Man With The DeLorean Heart – Shuttered; Footnote to an Ending; Annunciation – Polite Notice; Roker Song; Ten Commandments for Curlers – Lessons in Singing Requiems; Dear Tuba Teacher; School – Seasick; Lycanthropy – Red Riding Hood; Icarus – The rooftops; JAWS SMILEY – Bicycles; Henry, I can see you hiding there – Yn Y Stryd; Bed Time; Lads Holiday! Lads Lads Lads; Seaside B and B – The Translator.
Edited by Jane Griffiths and David Wheatley, with contributions from Luke van den Barselaar, Flora de Falbe, Sarah Fletcher, James Giddings, Dominic Hand, Alex Shaw, Jasmine Simms, Phoebe Stuckes, Azra Tabassum, Masha Voyles, Jessica Walker, Jessing Watthems, and Jay G Ying.