These are sensual, shapeshifting poems by this award-winning and "compelling pleasurable poet" (The Guardian), which unfold like a series of haunting dreams.

"Small World" tells a story of the changing relationship between a father and his two daughters, one severely disabled, a "mermaid in a wheelchair", the other discovering the difference of her elder sister, the "moon" to her "earth". Each succeeding...

Teasing, funny and celebratory – "Rays" is a wry and tender lover's gift. Continuing Richard Price's virtuosic playfulness of form, it improvises on the formal shape of sonnet and canzone, charging them with the energy of blues and rock, glimpsing na...

Greenfields shows how it was, to grow up in a quiet corner of Scotland, fixing the last decades of the twentieth century in its snapshots. The book reclaims suburbia as a place of unexpected poetry and conjures the bittersweet of such hybrid places....

Lucky Day begins with natural landscapes through which love and lyric flicker and flare. The sparrows, pigeons and magpies of the urban periphery lighten the atmosphere, edging the collection towards the city in the funny elegy "Bird List". The seque...