
The powerful new collection from award-winning poet Emily Berry Emily Berry's Dear Boy was described as a 'blazing debut' winning the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 2013 Stranger Baby its follow-up is marked by the same sense of fantasy & play estrangement & edgy humour for which she has become known But these poems delve deeper again in their off-kilter & often painful encounter with childhood loss This is a book of mourning recrimination exhilaration & 'oceanic feeling' 'A meditation on a want that can never be answered'