Lafarge, Daisy,

Life without air / Daisy Lafarge. - 89 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

P.B

Shortlisted for T.S. Eliot Prize 2020. When Louis Pasteur observed the process of fermentation, he noted that, while most organisms perished from lack of oxygen, some were able to thrive as 'life without air'. In this capricious, dreamlike collection, characters and scenes traverse states of airlessness, from suffocating relationships and institutions, to toxic environments and ecstatic asphyxiations. Both compassionate and ecologically nuanced, this innovative collection bridges poetry and prose to interrogate the conditions necessary for survival.

1783786337 9781783786336

2020445059

GBC0G4154 bnb

019984322 Uk


English poetry--21st century.

PR6112.A334 / L54 2020

821/.92