A collection of poetry from the Eric Gregory Award-winning Fiona Benson. In this remarkable, intensely moving, first collection, Fiona Benson shows her fascination with human experience. The poems move on archaeological fast-forward from submerged Devonian forests and a Paleolithic cave-bear skull to the site of decommissioned submarines at HMNB Devonport, where the sea is 'still a torpedo-path, an Armageddon road'. She explores the shared human continuum of bodily longing -- from the Prehistoric maker of a wooden fertility fetish, to a modern-day couple wading through summer pollen --...
A collection of poetry from the Eric Gregory Award-winning Fiona Benson. In this remarkable, intensely moving, first collection, Fiona Benson show...
**WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION 2019****WINNER OF THE ROEHAMPTON PRIZE FOR BEST POETRY COLLECTION 2019**Violence hangs over this book like an electric storm.
**WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION 2019****WINNER OF THE ROEHAMPTON PRIZE FOR BEST POETRY COLLECTION 2019**Violence hangs over this boo...