Celebrating new poetry books by Caroline Smith, Troy Cabida and guest poet Jessica Mookherjee

Join Caroline Smith, Troy Cabida and guest poet Jessica Mookherjee at this Online Book Launch to celebrate new poetry collections Bycatch and Neon Manila.

on Thursday 13th November, 7pm (GMT)

This event will be delivered as a live Zoom webinar, with optional live captions.

PLEASE NOTE: You will receive the Zoom link in your order email confirmation.

‘In Bycatch Caroline Smith has created a remarkable journal of care and its complex narratives, composed throughout with striking clarity of image and compassionate observation. These finely resonant poems show us how the worlds of capacity and apparent incapacity exist all in the same moment - her ageing parents’ house ‘like an unlocked church’, generous and vulnerable; her father’s shoe, unrecognised by him, ‘like a tugboat guiding him through the fog’; and most joyfully of all his un-anchored language ‘high up in the roof of the cloud forest/ broken free of the ground.’ - Jane Draycott

‘In poems that both haunt and delight with all their restless perception, Neon Manila navigates the glittery maze in which notions of brownness and desirability, queerness and hospitality, intermingle, quarrel, roil, and romp. Like the most delicious gossip and the most devastating prayer, Troy Cabida’s work brings its reader into a world of unflinching vulnerability. Like a lover’s pit-stained, memory-scented turtleneck sweater, this book intoxicates with a stinging clarity. What a stylish and truly bold debut.’ - Chen Chen

“The language of Jessica Mookherjee’s poems is vividly immediate, with its own rich culture, distinctive rhythms and striking imagery. The separate stories in the poems of Flood flow together into a single current, deep and powerful enough to evoke the experience of several lives.” – Susan Wicks

Click in to these titles to find out more and purchase a copy:

Bycatch

Neon Manila

Flood by Jessica Mookherjee