So Much for Life: Selected Poems art & photography

So Much for Life: Selected Poems art & photographyAuthor: Mark Hyatt Editors: Sam Ladkin and Luke Roberts Publisher: Nightboat Books Paperback Staff Pick! Sam says In his brief, tragic but beautiful life, the time given to Mark to write was briefer still. After an abusive childhood, he learned to read and write when he was thirteen. When he ended his life in the 70s, his poems were almost lost, but for the intervention of other poets who drove overnight to collect and Xerox them. Out of this small

loyalties are tested as they are pulled apart and thrown together in ways none of them imagined

happier lives

and it's just Lucy

we must rethink the attitudes toward success and failure that have accompanied globalisation and rising inequality

The board books are told in simple sentences

who went by the inexact anagrammatic pen name 'Marguarite Yourcenar'

manically violent leader

the deeper we want to go' Donna TarttLiving in the Blackwood family home with only her sister Constance and her Uncle Julian for company

Hardback | 400 pages

vegetarian

a young woman is teaching herself indifference

Published on 8 March 2018 by Little