Arthropod by Lydia Unsworth writing process definitive and carefully curated collection

definitive and carefully curated collection featuring work from over fifty years of writing - from Oliver's very first book of poetry

and queer liberation in modern American letters

listings and exclusive interviews with major poets

Grace Nichols

Arthropod by Lydia Unsworth writing process definitive and carefully curated collectionLydia Unsworth's Arthropod bursts open with 'Starlight Express', a long prose poem about protection and harm, containing cannibal flowers, lecherous men, and family dynamics as constellatory and atomised as the poem. Like Selima Hill, Will Harris and Caroline Bird, Unsworth's images and associations are seductive with crystallised mystery 'Knowing is holding a field in your palm'. At its dense core, the collection orbits a divorce and single