Accessioning Laura Besley

Accessioning Laura BesleyThrough poems about fossilised fruit seeds and the sofa where Emily Bront died, Wetton questions how we curate the lives of those living and dead in a pamphlet about looking, processing, and memorialising. Whether considering preserved wedding cakes, a non existent art exhibition or a human scream, these poems speak to the impossibility of containment and question our ability to map and categorise. This is a pamphlet of poems about the stories that we

While some of these authors express a quiet piety and explore poignant situations

Her life is completely taken over by James’ illness: her frustration at trying to cope

finely observed moments

Clasp is award-winning poet Doireann Ní Ghríofa’s first English-language collection of poems

Fatima Mahmoud: Poems

becomes her friend

rather than answer

underneath

Brian Johnson

She has published four full-length poetry collections

It’s the end of the 1980s and Europe is about to change forever

which for quite a while came from my reading rather than from the language spoken at home